ICE just made NY safer — despite Hochul and – Latest News
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are bent on defending criminals from ICE, but federal brokers nonetheless collared a beautiful 2,200 of them in July alone, and with more of that to come back.
Hooray for them — and New York.
The arrested embrace full-on murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, gang members, baby predators and different monsters nabbed as half of ICE’s “Operation Rotten Apple.” Again: 2,200 in all.
Villains, per the feds, like:
Bogdan Detrovich Gren, a Ukrainian national right here illegally who was convicted of homicide, kidnapping, abduction leading to death and prison possession of a weapon.
Andreas Bernal Chiquito, of Colombia, nabbed for sexual conduct in opposition to a baby and injuring a baby below 17.
Palvinder Singh, from India, convicted of rape in Germany.
Carlos Mendez-Acosta, from Venezuela, additionally convicted of rape.
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Can anybody actually argue New York isn’t safer with out these thugs?
Yet Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE obtained completely “no help” from both Hochul or Mamdani in rounding them up.
“Operation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer,” he added.
Indeed, Hochul has been boasting that a law she backed bans native cops from cooperating with federal brokers as they pursue illegal-immigrant criminals.
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It’s insane: She even tried to gaslight New Yorkers, claiming that by shielding criminals, her Local Cops, Local Crimes Act will someway enhance public security.
Mamdani, too, has put up roadblocks to keep ICE from eradicating criminals.
Per Homeland Security, New York’s “radical sanctuary policies” account for the release of more than 13,000 criminals back onto the streets.
That’s alleged to make you are feeling safer?
The largest irony: The gov and mayor’s suck-up to pro-criminal lefties produces the precise reverse of what they declare to need — i.e., protecting ICE brokers out of New York.
“Because [Hochul and Mamdani] refused to work with us,” promised Mullin, “we will send as many people as we have possible to make sure we are restoring law and order.”
Remember, ICE’s broad, public raids are far more prone to spark clashes with lefty protesters, as they did in February in Lower Manhattan in November and in Brooklyn in May.
Make no mistake: Mamdani and Hochul’s sanctuary pandering not solely undermines public security, it dangers more confrontations with ICE.
Kudos to Mullin and ICE and for doing the job New York pols received’t.
