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?
The latest news is the arrest of five migrant shoplifters — including at least two with multiple priors — who attacked cops at a Target last week: How were those two, Yusneiby Machado and Brayan Freites, 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 law enforcement from calling in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, let alone handing perps directly over.
And it keeps happening:
- Six of the eight migrant squatters busted on weapons and drug-dealing charges last week after wreaking havoc in a Bronx apartment walked: Only after The Post reported on it did Homeland Security raid that Bronx home and take three of the migrants into federal custody pending deportation.
- Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, a 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant and a suspect in the Times Square cop-assault, was re-arrested and charged with shoplifting at a Macy’s store in Queens.
- Yorman Reveron, another suspect in the Times Square cop-assault case, had two open cases in Manhattan for assault and robbery before that outrage.
Criminal migrants shouldn’t be allowed to hide under cover of Gotham’s 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 city’s sanctuary laws so the NYPD can cooperate with ICE agents 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 talking about “getting stuff done” and actually turn his musings into action.
If he truly wants to modify the city’s sanctuary laws, he can and 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 — and 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.
How about it, Mr. Mayor? Let’s get this done.
