ILLEGAL BUSTED 35 TIMES WITH 4 FELONY CONVICTIONS AND ONE PRISON TERM, BUT CANNOT BE DEPORTED

In Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001), the Supreme Court ruled indefinite detention of illegal immigrants who have been ordered deported but have nowhere to go was subject to constitutional limitations. To justify a detention of more than six months, the government has to show special circumstances like terrorism charges.

Hopefully, this criminal’s latest beef will result in a long prison term. But don’t hold your breath.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED 35TIMES CAN’T BE DEPORTED AS U.S. WON’T RECOGNIZE HIS HOMELAND PALESTINE AS A COUNTRY

Mail Online
April 22, 2012

An illegal immigrant with a 12-year criminal history and 35 arrests under his belt cannot be deported back to Palestine because the U.S. will not recognise his homeland as a country.

Sofyan Eldani, who lives in Alabama, was arrested earlier this week after police discovered crack cocaine in his vehicle.

When officers reviewed the 45-year-old’s criminal record, they were shocked to discover that he had been arrested 35 times over a period of 12 years.

Eldani has at least nine convictions, including four felonies, and has served six months in an Alabama prison for receiving stolen property, according to the Birmingham News.

His long list of arrests includes assault, fraudulent checks, criminal mischief, resisting arrests, reckless endangerment, shoplifting, burglary, drug possession, failure to appear, probation violation, possession of a drug paraphernalia and DUI.

But when Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler contacted Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials they said the convicted felon could not be deported because the U.S. does not recognise Palestine – his homeland – as a country.

They added that other countries had also refused to take Eldani, who holds an Egyptian passport.

‘Sofyan Eldani was previously detained by ICE and ordered removed to Egypt. ICE made a travel document request to Egypt. Mr. Eldani made travel document requests to Egypt, Israel and Kuwait,' the ICE said in a statement to the newspaper.

‘When authorities in those countries declined to provide the appropriate travel documents to facilitate Mr. Eldani's removal, he was released from ICE custody due to the Supreme Court's ruling in Zadvydas v. Davis.’

Hagler is outraged by the decision. 'I understand what they're saying, but it's not a satisfactory answer,' he said.

'It doesn't seem fair to us that if they refuse to take their problem child back, we are stuck with him. If an American gets convicted of being a serial child rapist in France, do we refuse to take him back? I doubt it. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane?'

‘It's not a matter of he came over here, there was a misunderstanding of our laws, or he was at the wrong place at the wrong time,’ he added to FOX6.

'There are a lot of reasons you could legitimately say somebody might have a brush with the law. There's a reason somebody may have one or two brushes with the law. When you start getting into the double digit arrests, you are dealing with a criminal.'

Eldani is currently in jail on a $200,000 bond for his most recent drug trafficking charges.