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We Reported Migrants Getting Leftist DA’s Free Legal Help. His Office Stopped Recording Their Cases

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Pennsylvania denied a request on Wednesday for the criminal records of migrants getting a leftist prosecutor’s legal aid because one of his attorneys no longer documents them.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office has fought a Daily Caller News Foundation records request under state law for three months to avoid showing charges of those seeking his protection from deportation. Despite disclosing cases in prior years, Krasner’s team said in April that the immigration counsel no longer keeps such lists. Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records (OOR) let them off the hook in a Wednesday letter denying the DCNF’s request for a 2025 case list.

⚖️ Soros DA Larry Krasner’s office has been giving free legal help to migrants with serious, violent charges for years now.

Now, they won’t even give us the documents allowing the @DailyCaller News Foundation to report on it after a public records request.

Immigration Counsel… pic.twitter.com/5pqFcXLb2O

— Hudson Crozier 🇺🇸 (@Hudson_Crozier) April 25, 2026

“Based on the evidence provided, [Krasner’s office] has met its burden of proving that records responsive to the Request do not exist within its possession, custody or control,” the OOR said. Krasner’s office did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Previous records requests by an immigration watchdog group revealed former Immigration Counsel Caleb Arnold giving free consultations to migrants charged with murder, rape and other violent offenses, the DCNF previously reported. Krasner’s current immigration counsel, Stefanie Costa, cannot comply with the latest request because her “recordkeeping practices differ from those employed previously,” Krasner’s office said in April.

Krasner created the immigration counsel position in 2018 to help foreign defendants avoid convictions that bring immigration consequences, according to his office. The immigration counsel office has reviewed more than 400 cases.

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee demanded documents on all the immigration counsel’s cases since 2018 in a May 4 letter.

“Even in cases involving murder or crimes against minors, a prosecutor in your office may still consider a criminal alien’s potential deportation or other immigration consequences in making prosecution decisions,” wrote Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Tom McClintock of California. “When your office is not openly favoring dangerous foreign nationals over U.S. citizens, it is using taxpayer dollars to coach outside legal professionals on the best strategies to help criminal aliens avoid immigration consequences for their criminality.”

Krasner called the letter an “untruthful, authoritarian propaganda campaign” in a May 13 statement.

“Jim Jordan: You and your party’s upside down, hateful mass deportation policies are discriminating against US citizens, defendants and all victims by favoring that small number of undocumented people who commit serious crimes while you step on non-violent, hard working immigrants who contribute to American society,” the district attorney said.

Former DCNF reporter Jason Hopkins contributed to this story.