Deport Criminal Migrants
In theory, the millions of “asylum seekers” that Team Biden has waved into the US interior are all on parole, subject to deportation if they break more laws — so why does the NYPD find itself arresting them again and again?
How were Yusneiby Machado and Brayan Freites, two migrant shoplifters with long rap sheets who attacked cops at a Target last week, not already in ICE custody?
The state’s ridiculous no-bail law explains why they weren’t in jail, but it’s Gotham’s “sanctuary city” statute that prevents cops from calling in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And it keeps happening:
Six of the eight migrant squatters busted on weapons and drug-dealing charges last week walked: Only after The Post reported on it did Homeland Security raid that Bronx home and take three of them into custody.
Venezuelan migrant Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19 and a suspect in the Times Square cop-assault, was re-arrested and charged with shoplifting in Queens.
Yorman Reveron, another Times Square suspect, had two open cases in Manhattan for assault and robbery before that outrage.
Criminal migrants shouldn’t get to hide behind sanctuary laws while our no-bail law returns them to the street to re-offend.
And ICE shouldn’t have to read about them in The Post in order to act.
A few months ago, Mayor Adams declared himself open to modifying the sanctuary laws so the NYPD can work with ICE in such cases, saying migrants “suspected of committing serious crimes in the city should be held accountable” and that “New Yorkers have a right to be safe.”
Adams needs to stop just talking about “getting stuff done.” If he wants to modify the city’s sanctuary laws, he should demand a City Council vote and force members to show whether they stand with their constituents or with imported South American gangs.
And if the council sides with Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and so on, then create a Charter Revision Commission to get it on the November ballot: Give a voice in changing the law to New Yorkers fed up with migrant thugs playing us for chumps.
One way or another, make New York the “city of yes” on deporting illegal-migrant criminals.