A federal judge has ruled that a Haitian immigrant who has been been held in immigration detention for eight months following two convictions for bending MetroCards to access the New York City subway should be subject to a bond hearing to weigh his release.
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York found that the prolonged detention of Augustin Sajous, who came to the United States from Haiti in 1972 when he was 14 years old, without a bond hearing violates his due process rights.
