The 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 a former FBI assistant director, Chris Swecker, calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. They bring “mindless knuckle-dragging violence,” warns Mr. Swecker. They’re the “most dangerous gangs on the planet.”
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While law enforcement officials here are warning us about the collapse of public safety, left-wing pols deny there’s a problem. The co-director of New York’s Working Families Party, Ana Maria Archila, 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 Biden’s open borders are allowing the worst to get in.
When Mayor Adams was asked on February 20 about stabbing incidents and violence against cops at the Randall’s Island shelter, Mr. 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”? Mr. Adams is downplaying a serious threat.
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On Monday, Mr. 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 America from Venezuela illegally in September 2022, was granted “parole” under Mr. 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.
Mr. 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, Mr. Ibarra was arrested three times, including for shoplifting. But Athens is also a sanctuary city, and he was always released.
On Saturday at CPAC, President Trump likened “migrant crime” to the deeds of fictional killer Hannibal Lecter, who eats victims. Not such a stretch in Mr. Ibarra’s case, considering he’s charged with “murder with malice” for bludgeoning Riley’s body until it was disfigured.
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The Left denies migrant crime is a problem. The public knows better. A new Pew Research Center report says 57 percent of Americans believe the huge influx of migrants is leading to more crime.
On Saturday, Mr. Adams stood at Times Square, boasting that it’s safe. 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’s 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.
* Original Article:
https://www.nysun.com/article/left-wing-politicians-in-denial-as-migrant-crime-surge-threatens-to-take-over-american-cities
