Because They Can…

Today’s Washington Post reports here on Lyglenson Lemorin, one of the “Liberty City Seven.” Indicted in Miami federal court for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower, Lemorin was acquitted. (The jury deadlocked on the other defendants. ) Over two months after the acquittal, Lemorin is still incarcerated, because the government wants to deport him back to Haiti. Lemorin, age 33, is a permanent legal resident who has lived in the U.S. for over 20 years. The government is seeking to deport Lemorin based upon the same charges the jury acquitted him on. Yes, the standard of proof is lower in immigration cases. Yes, the government does this kind of thing all the time. Yes, the government has the right to do it. But that doesn’t make it the right thing to do–particularly here where the evidence against Lemorin was so thin. Come January, certain segments within DOJ are due a major housecleaning.