An immigration judge on Monday denied bond to a Venezuelan City Council staffer being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention upstate.
Immigration Judge Charles Conroy, who has one of the lowest asylum grant rates in New York City held a 20-minute hearing Monday morning at the Varick Street immigration court. He then denied Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a personnel services data analyst for the city’s legislative body, the opportunity to post bond.
Bohorquez, whose arrest last month provoked widespread uproar among New York elected officials, appeared virtually in a yellow jumpsuit, from a white cinderblock room in the Orange County Jail upstate…