New York City’s Democrats — having once crowed about the Big Apple being an illegal-alien sanctuary — want the border closed and the city’s immense population of criminal “migrants” deported.
The fed-up lefties and, of course, Republicans, are furious that the city “rolled out the red carpet,” the New York Post reported, for some 60,000 criminal illegal aliens who have landed in the city since President Joe Biden opened the nation’s borders to an illegal-alien invasion.
That figure is almost 10 percent of the more than 750,000 illegal aliens living in the city.
Frightening Numbers
For residents of the once-safe city, the number of illegal-alien, Biden “migrant” criminals must be frightening.
“Of the 759,218 illegal-border crossers living in the Big Apple the feds were aware of as of Nov. 17, a jaw-dropping 58,626 — 7.7% — were either previously convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency data,” the Post reported:
And of the 58,626 migrants with rap sheets, 1,053, nearly 2%, are “suspected or known gang members,” according to the agency.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) pointed blame for the stunning stats at soft-on-crime and lax border-control policies pushed by President Biden and other Democrats.
“It’s shocking that Democrats have gone so far out of their way to harbor gang members, drug traffickers and other criminals who are in our country illegally,” said Malliotakis, the lone Republican representing the left-leaning Big Apple.
Because of its sanctuary law and policies, Malliotakis noted, the city won’t help ICE deport the rapists, murderers, gang members, and other savage criminals.
City ICE chief Kenneth Genalo told the newspaper that he wants more resources to round up the criminal “migrants,” but he’s ‘frustrated’ over how New York’s sanctuary laws have prevented many of them from being rounded up and deported under his watch,” the Post continued:
“[I]t would take a lifetime to clear the city of the criminals that we have” if the status quo remains the same, said Genalo in his first interview since Republican Donald Trump was elected president.
Since 2022, more than 223,000 “migrants” have besieged the city, and another 58,000 are housed in taxpayer-funded shelters.
Councilman Robert Holden says that everyone but far-left sanctuary-backing politicians know what’s up.
“These numbers make it clear what everyone but our elected officials already know: sanctuary city laws are endangering New Yorkers by shielding criminals instead of protecting law-abiding citizens,” the “moderate Queens Democrat” told the newspaper.
GOP Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli rightly fingered Biden and his party for flooding the city with criminals. “The Democratic Party, top to bottom, is responsible for every single one of these criminals and should be financially responsible to compensate crime victims,” he told the Post.
The newspaper also explained the consequences of the city’s dangerous sanctuary policy:
In 2014, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio teamed up with the City Council and signed a bill into law barring the NYPD from working with federal immigration officials when they’re seeking to boot dangerous migrants from the US.
Then, in 2018, the avowed Marxist took it a step further by issuing citywide guidance and new NYPD protocols to codify the Big Apple’s policy of not cooperating with the feds.
The revisions have had serious consequences. Murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal migrant who had been in custody in NYC on child-endangerment charges but set free, might still be alive if the woke rules were not in effect, critics have told The Post.
The council’s “far-left majority” has blocked legislation from Holden and Borelli to end the sanctuary insanity. And while city Mayor Eric Adams wants to reform the sanctuary policy, he claims the far-left council won’t back his move.
Reaction to Report
Amazingly, while some politicians say the madness must end and, again, blame Biden for the army of “migrant” criminals in the city, far-left Democrat, hate-Trump Governor Kathy Hochul says nothing will change.
U.S. Representative Mike Lawler, who represents the Empire State’s 17th District, noted that Hochul “said she’d be the first one to call ICE if a migrant broke the law” and now “has over 58,000 phone calls to make. Kathy Hochul must immediately end New York’s sanctuary state status and fully cooperate with ICE to ensure the safety and well being of all New Yorkers,” he told the Post.
Meanwhile, Hochul issued this mulish statement through a spokesman: “Governor Hochul will continue enforcing State policy, which protects law-abiding immigrants while ensuring violent criminals are held accountable.”
Except that they won’t be held accountable, as Laken Riley and her family found out. City taxpayers paid for her murderer, Jose Ibarra, to fly to Georgia. Once there, he beat her to death with a rock when she stopped him from raping her.
Conservative Party chieftain Gerard Kassar, who lives in Brooklyn, called the deluge of “migrant” criminals “astronomical and frightening.” He said, “enough of this crap.”
“Sanctuary policies are counterproductive and make New York and America unsafe,” he told the Post. “We need to end this insanity of the Biden years. New York City and New York State have propped up these failed policies.”
Council Democrat Holden isn’t the only Democrat who agrees. So also does U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi, who “seemed amenable to working with Trump and incoming border czar Tom Homan” to end the nightmare, the Post reported.
Suozzi said he supports deporting criminals and “will work with the incoming administration to accomplish that goal.”
“Migrant” Stabbing
As if to underscore the point, a 13-year-old “migrant” thug and his pals are accused of stabbing a pedestrian. His offense? He refused to photograph them.
“The Ecuadorian teen and his pals approached the 23-year-old victim around 9 p.m. at West 40th Street and Seventh Avenue and asked him to snap their picture,” the Post reported:
When the pedestrian said no, the crew ganged up on him — socking him in the face and stabbing him in the back and leg with a brass-knuckle knife, authorities said.
They also tried to grab his cellphone but were unsuccessful, cops said.…
The youngster — whose last known address is the notoriously violence-ridden Roosevelt Hotel — was charged with second-degree robbery, cops and sources said.
Nation at Risk
But the “migrant” criminal problem isn’t confined to New York City. It is nationwide.
As The New American reported in September, citing ICE data released to U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales, as of July more than 650,000 illegal-alien criminals were roaming American streets. Of those, 13,000 are murderers.
Another almost 16,000 were sex offenders.