Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pardoned a migrant convicted of assault to block his deportation.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has issued a full state pardon to a migrant convicted of second-degree assault to prevent his deportation. 📺 DETAIL: Governor Hochul pardoned Keisy Guerrero Mariano, a migrant from the Dominican Republic, last month after the Trump administration sought to appeal a 2024 decision from the Second Circuit Court, which ruled that prolonged detention allowed migrants to claim a constitutional right to bond hearings. Mariano was convicted of second-degree assault in 2015 and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2020 for his criminal record. He served time in prison and was marked for deportation. However, the Democrat governor’s pardon erased Mariano’s criminal record, nullifying the Supreme Court case and potentially protecting him from deportation. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “I wonder how many non-American felons Governors like Hochul will choose to fully pardon and free to avoid them facing consequences for their actions,” commented Eric Wessan, Iowa’s Solicitor General. 🎯 IMPACT: Governor Hochul’s intervention suggests that there was a real chance that Mariano would have lost his case in the Supreme Court. The pardon not only shields a migrant with a violent criminal history from deportation but also derails a critical Supreme Court clarification on the rights of noncitizens in prolonged detention. The case also shows that Democrats are prepared to pardon violent criminals and jeopardize the safety of American communities to spite President Donald J. Trump and his administration’s crackdown on migrant crime. 📺 FLASHBACK: Earlier this month, 2,197 migrants were arrested following an operation conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in New York. Those arrested included migrants convicted of murder, rape, assault, and drug trafficking, as well as pedophiles. “New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Mamdani released more than 13,000 criminal illegal aliens from jail back onto the streets of New York to terrorize innocent Americans,” said DHS Secretary Marwakyne Mullin at the time. |
I wonder how many non-American felons Governors like Hochul will choose to fully pardon and free to avoid them facing consequences for their actions.
— Eric W. (@EWess92) September 11, 2026
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