House Report Says New York City Prosecutors Tailored Plea Deals for Noncitizen Defendants
The House Judiciary Committee claims New York City district attorneys trained prosecutors to craft immigration-safe plea deals for noncitizen defendants, according to Fox News.
The House Judiciary Committee has claimed that New York City district attorneys trained prosecutors to craft plea deals that are safe for noncitizen defendants in immigration terms, Fox News reported.
According to Fox News, the committee's claims concern how prosecutors in New York City's district attorney offices were trained. The Fox News headline stated that the deals were tailored to shield noncitizen defendants from deportation. The summary of the story describes the committee's position as a claim, and it does not say whether the committee presented the claim as a finding of fact.
The Federal Chronicle has reviewed only the Fox News headline and summary. It has not reviewed the committee's report itself. Fox News did not name the author of its story in the material available to this report, and the summary does not say whether the district attorneys or other officials responded to the committee's claims, how many cases were involved, or what the training materials contained.