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New York City is a sanctuary city. That means they ignore federal detainers and release illegal immigrants from custody before ICE is able to collect them. Efforts by the law enforcement agency to recapture and possibly deport these people resulted in a 118 arrests during a 5-day raid.
Of the 118, 107 either had criminal convictions or had criminal charges pending against them. Some of the charges and convictions were for sex crimes, including child sex crimes.
ICE isn’t happy to have to waste taxpayer dollars in order to make our communities safer when they could have just picked up the illegal aliens while they were already in custody.
“In years past, most of these individuals would have been turned over to ICE by local authorities upon their release from jail based on ICE detainers,” ICE said in a statement on Tuesday. “Now that many sanctuary cities, including New York City, do not honor ICE detainers, these individuals, who often have significant criminal histories, are released onto the street, presenting a potential public safety threat.”
My Take
It is not racist to expect criminal illegal immigrants to be held or deported when arrested by local law enforcement. Unfortunately, cities like NYC place higher priority on the freedom of criminal illegal immigrants than on the citizens they’re sworn to protect.
Arguments for sanctuary cities are feeble at best. They say the practice allows citizens to feel safe reporting crimes committed by illegal immigrants. This makes absolutely no sense. It’s the legal immigrant communities that are harmed the most by illegal aliens, so claiming their safety and protection is the reason to release criminals back into their midst is ludicrous.
At some point, leftist cities may realize the cost of protecting criminal illegal immigrants is too high of a cost to pay, especially when doing so makes every citizen in the city less safe. Those who can leave sanctuary cities should do so before it’s too late.
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