NY Dems’ self-serving grandstanding over ICE – Latest News
Local Democrats went into full meltdown Tuesday over the arrest and detainment of a City Council staffer with an excellent deportation order by ICE — thereby exposing simply how removed from actuality New York’s political world has moved.
Council Speaker Julie Menin expressed “outrage” that ICE arrested Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a council information analyst and Venezuelan national, who’s been within the job for about a 12 months and allegedly possessed “a valid work permit until October.”
Rep. Dan Goldman and different Dem electeds joined Menin on the rapidly known as City Hall presser to fume and to hurl vitriol on the Department of Homeland Security and ICE officers.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,” tweeted Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Gov. Kathy Hochul jumped on it in her State of the State speech, smugly asking if “an analyst with legal work authorization” is “really one of the baddest of the bad?”
For all of the hysteria, DHS stories that Rubio Bohorquez entered the United States on a B2 vacationer visa in 2017 and failed to go away — which is a federal crime.
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DHS additionally revealed that he was arrested in Queens in March 30, 2023, and charged with an assault within the third degree inflicting bodily damage — which could disqualify him for the Temporary Protected Status he claims beneath a Biden-era order granting mass work authorizations for eligible Venezuelan immigrants.
Then again, that charge was expunged from his legal historical past . . . . apparently as a result of New York’s sanctuary insurance policies direct district attorneys to guard undocumented immigrants from so-called “collateral consequences” (e.g., deportation, loss of inexperienced card) of any interplay with the law.
Those issues didn’t keep Goldman (determined for headlines as he faces a further-left main problem) from calling the ICE arrest half of an “immigration dragnet” carried out by “secret masked police” dragging people “out of cars, out of homes, out of courtrooms” and now concentrating on these serving “the public as employees of the New York City Council.”
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The grandstanding Goldman staked out the halls of immigration courtroom on the Jacob Ok. Javits Federal Building on Tuesday in hopes of intervening on Rubio Bohorquez’s behalf, whereas Democratic council members and the employees union protested outdoors the federal lockup on Varick Street in Manhattan.
Menin, like so many fellow blue-state Democrats, is by ICE delusion syndrome — obsessively denouncing the company as a pack of “fascists,” a “modern-day Gestapo” that’s “grabbing people off the street and disappearing them.”
Menin fumed that Rubio Bohorquez “was doing everything the right way,” but “still found himself the victim of egregious government overreach,” enforcement she known as “unacceptable.”
Yes: Enforcing US immigration law is “unacceptable.”
Yet her “outrage” depends primarily the truth that Rubio Borhorquez signed an employment attestation in January claiming that he had by no means been arrested — when the truth is he had been, and even the state’s Clean Slate law nonetheless requires disclosure of an expunged arrest when in search of a authorities job.
This would hardly be the primary time an unlawful immigrant falsified an attestation or supplied phony paperwork to an employer.
Of course, due to the town’s sanctuary insurance policies, the council’s HR division possible didn’t even confirm Rubio Bohorquez’s standing with the feds.
All this raging no doubt served the politicians’ wants, however we are able to’t help however marvel if some quieter strategy — possibly get the mayor to textual content his White House bro for a favor? — wouldn’t have finished more good for Rubio Bohorquez.
But such is New York’s political class, far more dedicated to grandstanding than to taking care of a man they declare to care about.
