“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers,” her husband said. But she passed a bad $25 check ten years ago, so adios! er... Slán leat!

essentialsaltes said:

Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago​

Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

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Richard T said:

How low can we go?

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Hentenza said:

What a crock. This person is not a criminal and is here legally. So much for deporting only hardened, illegal immigrant criminals.

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Aryeh Jay said:

Passing bad checks is illegal and a gateway crime to human trafficking and murder.

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Hentenza said:

Really? I passed a bad check once when I was younger and it was the bank’s fault not mine. Am I now a hardened criminal?

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Aryeh Jay said:

You have a larger chance of becoming one as well as your bank.

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• group A contains offenders with no prior arrests;
• group B contains offenders with prior arrests, but no prior convictions; and
• group C contains offenders with only prior convictions that are to never count towards criminal history.

Key Findings​

• Among these groups the lowest recidivism rate is for group A with a rate of 6.8 percent. Group B has a recidivism rate of 17.2 percent. Group C has a recidivism rate of 8.8 percent.
• While group B offenders have no prior convictions, it appears that the absence of prior convictions is often due to prosecutorial declinations, arrests that were pending prosecution at the time of sentencing for the instant offense, or arrests with issued outstanding warrants. Moreover, group B, with its recidivism rate of 17.2 percent, has a substantially greater risk for future offending compared to groups A and C.
• Group C offenders, having been previously convicted of minor traffic or public order crimes, have only limited contact with the criminal justice system prior to their instant offense. Also, with a recidivism rate of 8.8 percent, the overwhelming majority of group C offenders – almost nine out of ten – are not likely to recidivate.
• From both culpability and recidivism risk perspectives, group A offenders, with no prior arrests, most strongly meet the conceptual definition of the first offender category. Offenders in group A have had no recorded contact with the criminal justice system prior to their instant federal offense. Moreover, as indicated by their extremely low recidivism rate of 6.8 percent, they are easily the most empirically identifiable group of guideline federal offenders who are the least likely to re-offend.”

Recidivism and the "First Offender"

This second release in the Research Series on the Recidivism of Federal Offenders provides an empirical foundation for the Commission's study of recidivism rates among federal offenders with little or no criminal history prior to the federal instant offense. Using definitional frameworks...

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Aryeh Jay said:

Passing bad checks is illegal and a gateway crime to human trafficking and murder.

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Hentenza said:

Don’t drink the kool aid. My bank can also become a criminal? lol

“This report examines recidivism risk for three plausible first offender groupings consistent with historical Commission definitions of possible first offenders. The three first offender groups all come from offenders with zero criminal history points, and are defined as follows:

• group A contains offenders with no prior arrests;
• group B contains offenders with prior arrests, but no prior convictions; and
• group C contains offenders with only prior convictions that are to never count towards criminal history.

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Key Findings​

Based on the Commission's analysis the following observations were made:

• Among these groups the lowest recidivism rate is for group A with a rate of 6.8 percent. Group B has a recidivism rate of 17.2 percent. Group C has a recidivism rate of 8.8 percent.
• While group B offenders have no prior convictions, it appears that the absence of prior convictions is often due to prosecutorial declinations, arrests that were pending prosecution at the time of sentencing for the instant offense, or arrests with issued outstanding warrants. Moreover, group B, with its recidivism rate of 17.2 percent, has a substantially greater risk for future offending compared to groups A and C.
• Group C offenders, having been previously convicted of minor traffic or public order crimes, have only limited contact with the criminal justice system prior to their instant offense. Also, with a recidivism rate of 8.8 percent, the overwhelming majority of group C offenders – almost nine out of ten – are not likely to recidivate.
• From both culpability and recidivism risk perspectives, group A offenders, with no prior arrests, most strongly meet the conceptual definition of the first offender category. Offenders in group A have had no recorded contact with the criminal justice system prior to their instant federal offense. Moreover, as indicated by their extremely low recidivism rate of 6.8 percent, they are easily the most empirically identifiable group of guideline federal offenders who are the least likely to re-offend.”

Recidivism and the "First Offender"

This second release in the Research Series on the Recidivism of Federal Offenders provides an empirical foundation for the Commission's study of recidivism rates among federal offenders with little or no criminal history prior to the federal instant offense. Using definitional frameworks...

www.ussc.gov

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Desk trauma said:

Don’t get too weak and weary taking this seriously.

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essentialsaltes said:

Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago​

Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

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Aryeh Jay said:

Passing bad checks is illegal and a gateway crime to human trafficking and murder.

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iluvatar5150 said:

Well, hey, at least they're getting white people now, too. Sounds like ICE finally came around on the whole DEI thing.


You can't trust any Irish IMO.

Source: am Irish.

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Aryeh Jay said:

Irish and Italian both begin with "I", the same as illegal.

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Aryeh Jay said:

Irish and Italian both begin with "I", the same as illegal.

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RocksInMyHead said:

Checkmate liberals!

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iluvatar5150 said:

In the default font here, the 'l' in "liberal" and the 'I' in "Illegal" are identical, so extra double checkmate.

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