{"id":4575,"date":"2024-09-03T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:17:27","slug":"migrants-flooding-nycs-justice-system-making-up-75-of-arrests-in-midtown-as-pathetic-sanctuary-city-laws-handcuff-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"Migrants flooding NYC\u2019s justice system \u2014 making up \u201875% of arrests in Midtown\u2019 \u2014 as \u2018pathetic\u2019 sanctuary city laws handcuff cops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jefferson Maldenado, a 31-year-old migrant from Ecuador, has been arrested in New York City five times since arriving in the US earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His latest bust was for stealing a pair of pants and a beer from the Target near Herald Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked why he committed the crime, the migrant thief said, \u201cI wanted to change my clothes and think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to sit down and think about my life, about what to do. Because this is not a normal world.\u201d

He was just one of five migrants in a Manhattan courtroom for arraignment one night last week.

Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal justice system \u2014 at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many as 75% of the people they\u2019ve been arresting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery and domestic violence are migrants. In parts of Queens, the figure is more than 60%, sources there estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On any given day, Big Apple criminal court dockets are packed with asylum seekers who have run afoul of the law.

The problem is made much worse by sanctuary city laws that mean New York cops aren\u2019t allowed to work with ICE on cases in which they believe suspects are in the country illegally. Additionally, the NYPD says it is barred from tracking the immigration status of offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes it almost impossible for authorities to get their arms around the problem, experts and sources on the ground say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew York City eliminated a tool to get rid of violent criminals. What a mess,\u201d Jim Quinn, a veteran former prosecutor at the Queens District Attorney\u2019s Office, told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sanctuary city law is pathetic. It\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making matters worse, police sources say, word has gotten out in the shelters about the city\u2019s lax bail guidelines \u2014 meaning migrants know they\u2019re going to get kicked back onto the street quickly after they\u2019re nabbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A City Hall spokesman pointed to Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 previous calls for the City Council to change the sanctuary city laws. Last week, Adams said, \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t have the authorization to be able to go and coordinate with ICE. We have to follow the law.\u201d

The mayor\u2019s office also said the city is working with the Midtown Improvement Coalition to better police the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An NYPD spokesperson said overall crime is down so far this year compared to last year, and added, \u201cNew Yorkers can count on the NYPD\u2019s ongoing vigilance in every neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the spokesperson also noted, \u201cPolice officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn\u2019t track data pertaining to immigration statuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, the only people who have a full understanding of the scale of the problem are the police officers and court workers who see it day in, day out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would say about 75% of the arrests in Midtown Manhattan are migrants, mostly for robberies, assaults, domestic incidents and selling counterfeit items,\u201d a Midtown officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the figure is an estimate because \u201cyou can\u2019t be 100% sure [they\u2019re migrants] unless you arrest them in a shelter or they\u2019re dumb enough to give you a shelter address.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Manhattan cop said that excluding petty larcenies at drugstores, the number of local arrests involving migrants is \u201ceasily\u201d 75%, noting that most who get caught shoplifting go more for the pricey branded goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t be bothered with lower-end stores. They like Lululemon and Sunglass Hut,\u201d he said, adding that migrants are behind \u201cmost\u201d of the pickpocketing and phone and chain snatches the NYPD is encountering.

The problem is visible in Queens courts, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are days we have so many migrant cases, we have to call in for extra Spanish interpreters,\u201d a law enforcement officer at the Queens Criminal Courthouse told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another court officer said, \u201cCome on Mondays! Almost every case is a migrant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many of the crimes are domestic incidents or petty thefts, others are far more heinous, sometimes involving gang violence<\/a> or vicious sexual assaults<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuelan migrant Yurlex Daniel Guzman Quintero was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Aug. 28, accused of a deplorable act of sexual abuse against his girlfriend in which he viciously choked her and held a knife to her head. Court documents allege it all happened in front of her child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same day, migrant Dionisio Moran Flores was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court for allegedly raping his 5-year-old daughter. He was ordered held on $150,000 bail.

Meanwhile, Tren de Aragua \u2014 the vicious Venezuelan prison gang wreaking armed havoc around the country<\/a> \u2014 has set up shop in NYC and is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops<\/a> who were trying to arrest a member in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very same pack of thugs has been arming up to facilitate further terrorizing the city, smuggling guns into city-run shelters in food delivery bags<\/a> to evade metal detectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of the people we arrest are professionals \u2014 these aren\u2019t their first crimes,\u201d one law enforcement source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cop added that the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s lax border policies, combined with sanctuary city laws, have allowed the problem to fester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrime would be down significantly if there was a wall and we could account for everyone who comes into the country,\u201d the source grumbled. \u201cAnd more importantly, throw them out if they commit a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some migrants have become recurring guests of city jails and courtrooms \u2014 and are often back on the streets to reoffend<\/a> as quickly as they were captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care if they get arrested \u2014 they laugh if they get sent to Rikers. Where they come from, they get tortured in jail,\u201d a Bronx cop said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that while \u201cmost\u201d people arrested in the borough are migrants, it\u2019s impossible to say if they entered the country during the massive wave that began in spring 2022. About 64,000 migrants remain<\/a> in the city\u2019s shelter and social service system.

Migrant arrest numbers in Queens don\u2019t fare much better than those for Manhattan. A cop estimated that \u201cmore than 60%\u201d of the people arrested in Jackson Heights are migrants, whose offenses involve such crimes such as robbery, grand larceny and assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoosevelt Avenue and 91st Street looks like a scene from \u2018Casablanca\u2019 with all the vendors. You can buy food, clothes, toys, electronics, tools and get your car washed,\u201d the NYPD source said of the mass-scale open-air bazaar that has sprung up along the sidewalks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe area has become a Third World country, and it seems like City Hall doesn\u2019t care about the taxpayers who live and work here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Elmhurst, particularly the area along Roosevelt Avenue, has experienced a nearly 22% uptick in crime compared to last year \u2014 much of it migrant-related \u2014 putting it in second place for the worst increase of crime citywide, trailing only Central Park in Manhattan.

Business owners and residents of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst said they\u2019ve watched helplessly as the neighborhood has taken a nosedive into a crime-riddled slum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to come to the pharmacy because of the sidewalks here,\u201d said Jenny Leal, pharmacist at Mi Pharmacia on Roosevelt Avenue, while gesturing to a row of at least 50 vendors who have set up shop in the immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe number of prostitutes have doubled in the last two months. They\u2019re starting to act like they are part of the community now,\u201d she said. \u201cWe see them every day, it\u2019s like the same people wearing the same outfits. It\u2019s really strange.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City PBA president Patrick Hendry decried the out-of-control lawlessness taking root across the city, blaming the courts for failing to take a firm enough hand to combat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur justice system is already failing to protect New Yorkers and hold lawbreakers accountable, regardless of where they come from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut now word has gotten out that you can come to New York to commit crimes and attack police officers and be out the next day. That message needs to change in order to keep dangerous people off our city streets,\u201d Hendry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some migrants who have been arrested multiple times said they tried the straight and narrow path \u2014 but it\u2019s just too hard in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI walked through the woods. I kept on walking \u2014 walking to get to the American Dream. They tell you about the American Dream. But when I got here, I saw that it was not like they said. It\u2019s not easy here. It\u2019s no bed of roses,\u201d said Maldenado, the migrant busted for stealing from Target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Bernalrodriguez, 45, from Colombia, said he was arrested for stealing French fries at La Guardia Airport.

He gave the city shelter system mixed reviews, acknowledging \u201cyou can get help\u201d at one of the complexes but also bemoaning theft at the hands of fellow migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not always easy in the shelters. They steal there. People steal your stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The district attorneys\u2019 offices of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx did not respond to requests by The Post for comment on Monday.

Reprinted from \u201cThe New York Post.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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