As a New York criminal defense lawyer with an active criminal defense practice in Westchester we commonly represent clients with immigration and deportation issues.Often clients ask my husband or a family member was arrested and they are illegally here what is going to happen.
The answer often depends on what happens at arraignment. The local Westchester town police departments do not often contact ICE or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So our White Plains criminal defense lawyers can obtain a release or bail which can be posted at the Court which is advantageous.
Typically once a person goes to the Westchester County Jail at Valhalla then Immigration is notified immediately and there will be an immigration hold. This is dangerous for the illegal immigrant because once an immigration hold is put on someone they will not be released even if they are bailed out. So our White Plains criminal defense lawyers aggressively fight to get undocumented immigrants out of jail before they go to the Westchester County Jail to prevent them from ending up in deportation proceedings.
Our Westchester criminal defense lawyers often see these issues in the Westchester towns with heavy immigrant populations including White Plains, Port Chester, New Rochelle and Yonkers.
