A Judge in Manhattan Just Bent Over Backwards for Illegals.

A Manhattan judge just handed illegal immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza a big win. On August 12, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan slapped ICE with a restraining order over conditions in its Manhattan holding facility. He says the place is overcrowded, dirty, and not giving people enough food. Now ICE has to make it nicer.

The order demands at least 50 square feet per person, bedding mats, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, bottled water, feminine products, three meals a day, and regular cleaning. Detainees must also get confidential legal calls within 24 hours and written notice of their rights within an hour. Sounds like a hotel upgrade — all for people who broke into our country.

Most of NYC’s luxury hotels were turned into migrant flop houses, with corporations pocketing taxpayer cash to host them. Rooms were trashed, furniture destroyed, and the streets outside became open-air brothels with prostitutes working the sidewalks. Crime skyrocketed. It wasn’t safe for anyone. But now that Trump is bringing back law and order, and it’s time for these illegals to go, the courts want them treated like VIPs.

 

What They Say Is Happening

The activists behind the lawsuit claim detainees have been sleeping on bare concrete, getting only two meals a day, and using toilets in full view of others. Aww, poor babies. They say some people have been denied medication. Women say they went days without menstrual products. One guy says guards squirted water at them like they were animals. Oh, the horror! Meanwhile, Americans have been raped, beaten, and murdered by illegals — and somehow that doesn’t spark a courtroom panic or a restraining order.

These stories are making headlines everywhere. But notice something: almost no media outlets have their own photos from inside. The images we do see come from activist groups. We’re just supposed to take their word for it.

The lawsuit was filed on August 8 by a Peruvian immigrant named Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado.

Barco Mercado is also being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union. Barco Mercado is currently being held at 26 Federal Plaza.

The suit claims that people detained in the holding rooms have little access to legal counsel and are subjected to unsafe health conditions. – Fox5NY

Activists love to say these detainees “haven’t committed a crime.” That is only true in the narrowest legal sense. If you sneak into the country, that is a federal misdemeanor the first time. Do it again and it becomes a felony. If you overstay a visa, it is a civil violation. It is not criminal, but it still breaks U.S. immigration law and is grounds for deportation. Being here without authorization is against the law. ICE has every right to detain you. That is what happened with Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado.

Compare This to the J6 Prisoners

Here’s what really sticks out. These illegal immigrants get a judge to jump into action within days. They get more space, more food, better hygiene, and special rules for legal calls.

But let’s remember the January 6 defendants — many of them nonviolent — sat rotting in D.C. jails for years. They’ve reported moldy food, no medical care, solitary confinement for weeks, no regular access to lawyers, and filthy conditions. Some were denied haircuts before court. Federal judges barely lifted a finger.

This is J6 prisoner Ryan Samsel in the closet room he was held in for 5 months.
He has been held in prison IN ISOLATION since January 2021! He has been moved around to 17 different facilities.
He has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected.
He has been denied due process or… pic.twitter.com/zX4HimcFqN

— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) December 1, 2024

If the Constitution supposedly protects everyone on U.S. soil, why does one group get the royal treatment while the other gets told to tough it out? Could it be that one group fits the political narrative and the other doesn’t?

Rights for Everyone — Or Just the Chosen Few?

Humane treatment should be the baseline for anyone in custody. Nobody’s saying migrants should sleep on concrete without hygiene or care. But when a judge bends over backward for illegals while ignoring Americans in worse shape, that’s not justice. That’s politics in a robe.

This Manhattan case proves the system can act fast when it wants to. It just refuses to when the people in the cells are on the “wrong” side of the political divide.

If you’re in the country illegally, you get a judge ordering ICE to fluff your pillow. If you’re a law-abiding American, you’re treated like the problem — branded a terrorist, a white nationalist, or a racist — while actual criminals are coddled and turned loose to keep victimizing the public. That’s the America we’re living in.

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