Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned on Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason.
Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. They bring “mindless knuckle-dragging violence,” warns Swecker. They’re the “most dangerous gangs on the planet.”
Swecker speculates that countries are emptying their prisons deliberately. Gang leaders setting up crime rings in the U.S. “come out of the muck and the slime of the South American prisons.”
While law enforcement officials here are warning us about the collapse of public safety, left-wing pols deny there’s a problem. Ana Maria Archila, co-director of New York’s Working Families Party, calls the “chaos and insecurity” people are feeling a “false sense.” She blames it on racism and xenophobia, not reality. Open your eyes, Ms. Archila.
Public safety is visibly spiraling downward: migrants beating cops in Times Square; migrants running prostitution rings; migrants on mopeds robbing pedestrians; migrants shoplifting and stripping retail stores; and now a migrant who recently left New York has been arrested for killing a Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley. Not everyone violating the border is a hardened criminal, but President Joe Biden’s open borders are allowing the worst to get in.
When Mayor Eric Adams was asked on Feb. 20 about stabbing incidents and violence against cops at the Randall’s Island shelter, Adams said that “even the most peaceful person — being confined to an area with 3,000 people … there comes a time where it just irritates you.”
“Irritates”? Adams is downplaying a serious threat.
New York’s misguided “sanctuary city” policy makes the danger worse. If a migrant is arrested in New York, the NYPD is barred from communicating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to determine whether the migrant should be deported, jailed or allowed back on the street. On Monday, Adams stated clearly that sanctuary status must be changed so migrants who commit felonies can be picked up by ICE and deported. He’s said it before. Now it needs to happen.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, entered the U.S. from Venezuela illegally in September 2022, was granted “parole” under Biden’s policy and came to New York on a bus. While here, he was arrested once but not detained. Now he’s charged with murdering Riley, who was out jogging on the University of Georgia’s Athens campus.
Swecker suggests that “this man did not burst spontaneously into a criminal overnight. This is someone who has committed crimes before.”
After moving to Athens, Georgia, Ibarra was arrested three times, including for shoplifting. But Athens is also a sanctuary city, and he was always released.
On Saturday at CPAC, Donald Trump likened “migrant crime” to the deeds of fictional killer Hannibal Lecter, who eats victims. Not such a stretch in Ibarra’s case, considering he’s charged with “murder with malice” for bludgeoning Riley’s body until it was disfigured.
The vicious gang MS-13 is resurging and may join forces with Tren de Aragua. In 2017, an MS-13 gang hacked and beheaded four Long Island teens, using machetes, knives and a chisel. Gruesome.
The Left denies migrant crime is a problem. The public knows better. A new Pew Research Center report says 57% of Americans believe the huge influx of migrants is leading to more crime.
On Saturday, Adams stood in Times Square, boasting that it’s safe. But saying it doesn’t make it so. Just two days earlier, a teenager visiting the “Crossroads of the World” for the first time was knifed by a gang of masked attackers, including several migrants. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a collapsed lung.
Migrant gangs pose the biggest danger, but pervasive sex trafficking is also a scourge. Watch at about 6 p.m. each day as women exit shelters and get picked up in cars, leaving their kids behind for the night. It’s happening in all five boroughs, according to Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Agent in Charge Darren McCormack.
Are neighbors who criticize what’s happening xenophobic and racist? No. They just want a decent life, and they see it disappearing fast.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Prison released thugs, Drug users, Drug sellers, Drug killers, Gang Bangers, Store thieves, Money launderers, sexual panderers, child abusers, women sellers for pay and pleasure,,,,the new illegal alien face of the Democrat party that matches the old domestic one sans integrity. Whole cloths of family ties that bind them to power where Crime is their comfort zone, and the enablement of crime the source of their voting power, where power gets socially redistributed from the honest law abiding, into the ranks of their well-formed lying legions on the lost, that now populate the Democrat Party armies of darkness. Just who the hell votes for THAT? Only a fool would pay to feed, cloth, house, medicate them, on the taxpayer dime, where a trip to the USA is now TRANS-formed into a taxpayer funded vacation to the USA located Pinocchio’s pleasure island, where those who enter all get turned into Disney “Lampwick” Democrat voting Donkeys, while the American taxpayer guilt manipulated Jiminy Cricket consciences get guilt tripped into paying the for all expenses incurred in the cost of their personal illegal alien vacation trips whose return plane fares are paid for free of charge,,,the new democrat definition of asylum, followed by free transportation deportation. “See the USA while the taxpayers pay” is about as insane as the Biden brains that concocted this scam.
The treasonous Muslim Tinkerbell Barack Obama concocted this scam while he was president. The corrupt puppet OBiden is just obeying his masters.
Jul 8, 2014, Obama request for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis “is so much smoke and mirrors,” legislators, law enforcement and other federal officials said. The bulk of the money is earmarked for resettlement rather than for removal and border enforcement. Out of the White House’s $3.7 billion request, $1.8 billion, or about 49% of the entire supplemental request, would go to HHS for resettlement of illegal minors and entire family units, including adult men and women. Funds would be provided “for acquisition, construction, improvement, repair, operation and maintenance of real property and facilities” According to internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents, 47% of the adults subject to expedited removal would be relocated and resettled in the U.S.
The administration’s supplemental request also includes a “general provision” by which it would be allowed to move around as much as 30% of the funding as they choose. The Department of Justice (DOJ) would be given $15 million to hire attorneys to defend unaccompanied alien children against deportation in removal proceedings before an immigration judge and $1.1 million would be given to DOJ for “immigration litigation attorneys.”
Does this sound like Obama wants to secure the border or to send these illegal immigrants home?
ANd when Trump claimed “THEY ARE NOT SENDING US THEIR FINEST”, he got demonized for it, NOT just by the left, but by some even in our own party..
” ,,,The Absolutely CERTAIN WAY of Bringing This Nation to Ruin, of PREVENTING All Possibility of Its Continuing to Be A Nation At all, Would BE To Permit It to Become A TANGLE of SQUABBLING NATIONALITIES…”
Theodore Roosevelt- 1915 Address before THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Teddy had some GREAT words of wisdom over the years.
You get what you vote for. You want the treasonous, destructive, unethical, lying, immoral, woke, demonic Democrat Party to be the lord of your lives? Well in these Democrat Ruled cities and States, you have received what you voted for. So be happy with who you voted to rule your life.
While law enforcement officials here are warning us about the collapse of public safety, left-wing pols deny there’s a problem.
I hear Venezuela and El Salvador are nice. Great weather and low crime…. since they sent all their criminals up here !!
AND for those folk STILL THINKING “there are still good federal enforcement officers”, THINK AGAIN!
Hopefully, when Trump gets in, he better make good on his promise to rid us of these unwanted parasites. By Any Means Necessary.
I’d love it if he gave us citizens, full authority to use lethal force, as needed, to get them out of our nation. AND keep them out.