By Hudson Crozier
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. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Soros DA Hides Docs On Migrants Getting Legal Help In ‘Sketchy’ Move)
⚖️ 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’s officer freed a murderer who went on to kill again.
Earlier, Krasner was ordered to apologize for lies his office told a federal judge. Because Krasner’s office had committed “egregious” and “exceptional” violations of the federal rules of procedure, the judge ordered the DA to “send separate written apologies” to four victim family members.
Krasner, a soft-on-crime district attorney, is himself a scofflaw, noted Big Trial: “Krasner, a persistent tax deadbeat, still owes the city $83,406.50 in back taxes.” But “unless he’s impeached, or somehow removed from office, Krasner….will continue to let armed and dangerous criminals off the hook. And they’ll continue to go out and hurt, maim and/or kill more innocent victims.”
Krasner fails to prosecute most serious crimes, even when arrests are made. As Big Trial noted in 2022, “the percentage of criminal cases withdrawn or dismissed by the D.A.’s office has gone from 28% in 2014 under former D.A. Seth Williams all the way up to 67% last year under D.A. Krasner.”
Krasner fired experienced prosecutors who were good at obtaining justice for crime victims, as soon as he took office. As Big Trial noted,
When he first took office back in January 2018, Krasner’s first official act was to fire 31 senior prosecutors…The new Philly D.A., a career criminal defense lawyer who had never prosecuted a traffic stop, replaced the most senior prosecutors in his office with a combination of social justice warriors, former public defenders and woke progressives fresh out of law school.
The result was that criminals remained free to kill innocent people. 21-year-old Jailene Holton was shot to death by a man that Krasner’s office failed to convict of rape despite overwhelming evidence, such as text messages. Krasner’s office assigned an inexperienced recent hire who had previously interned in a public defender’s office to prosecute the case. He bungled the case, so the defendant walked free. Seven months later, that man shot Jailene Holton to death in a rage.
