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One grim impact of the Harris-Biden migrant crisis was invisible to most New Yorkers until Tuesday’s Post exclusive blew it wide open: “Asylum seeking” criminals are clogging the city’s courts.
Adding insult to injury, Mayor Adams admits that criminal charges won’t get you kicked out of a city shelter.
Blame the prez and veep for waving in millions of illegal migrants who can’t work legally, but also blame the city’s sanctuary-city lunacy and the state’s perp-friendly laws.
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Gotham doesn’t even track the citizenship status of accused criminals, so we can only rely on estimates from courthouse staff and other insiders when we report that roughly 75% of those arrested in Midtown Manhattan for crimes like assault, pickpocketing, robbery and domestic violence are migrants, and over 60% in parts of Queens.
But it’s indisputable that, on any given day, Big Apple criminal-court dockets are packed with migrants who’ve run afoul of the law.
And that the “sanctuary” laws, which stop the NYPD and the courts from even consulting with federal immigration-law-enforcement, allow illegal migrants to become repeat offenders.
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Nor that, thanks to no-bail and other “criminal-justice reforms,” these perps not only don’t get deported, they’re regularly back roaming free on city streets soon after they’re arrested.
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Indeed, our laws encourage the crime-inclined to come here: “Word has gotten out that you can come to New York to commit crimes and attack police officers and be out the next day,” as PBA President Patrick Hendry told The Post.
No wonder the vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has moved into Gotham in force.
It’s a problem for communities near the city, too — just as Aurora, Colo., has seen migrant-related crime spillover from sanctuary-city Denver .
Kamala Harris is claiming she’s “tough” on the border and crime, but co-owns the policies of the last three-plus years that drive this crisis.
It’s up to American voters to force a change in Washington — and to New York voters to oust the local progressives whose policies deepen the crisis here.
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