The taxpayer-funded consultations were provided to migrants charged with various heinous crimes-including rape, robbery, strangulation, aggravated assault, and homicide by vehicle-in an ostensible effort to help them avoid convictions that would lead to their deportation, documents obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute reveal.
"He is directly contradicting the purpose of a district attorney-to prosecute crimes-and using his office to help immigration violators evade the law," Dale Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said of Krasner.
In practice, reaching "Immigration-neutral" outcomes typically means the immigration counsel works with prosecutors on lowering charges against non-citizens accused of various crimes-defendants who are illegal immigrants are not excluded from possible consultation, according to the office and past reports.
At the outset of Arnold's position, Krasner's office repeatedly suggested the immigration counsel would not provide assistance to foreign nationals accused of high-level offenses such as homicide and sex crimes.
A case list of defendants who consulted with the immigration counsel reveals that the district attorney's office is helping potentially dangerous noncitizens avoid deportation.
The institute filed a records request with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, asking for a list of "Defendants Immigration Counsel Caleb Arnold has consulted with, or otherwise worked on, over the 2023 calendar year."
In its investigative report, the Immigration Reform Law Institute noted that the case list not only contradicts past claims by Krasner's office but gives special privileges to foreign nationals not afforded to U.S. citizens.
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