Opinion
Criminals posing as asylum seekers are turning American cities into war zones.
The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, feared for how it tortures its victims, is setting up business in New York City, police sources reveal.
Gang members recruit migrants from shelters and as they come off buses from Texas, putting then to work in retail theft rings or on mopeds, grabbing phones and handbags and roughing up pedestrians.
“This is organized crime. It’s just like the Mafia,” says Paul DiGiacomo, president of the NYC Detectives’ Endowment Association.
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban warns of a “wave of migrant crime.” Democratic pols deny it. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says migrants “are looking for a better life.” True for many, not all.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander accuses Caban of “fear mongering” and using a “Republican talking point.”
Believe the cops, not the pols.
Migrants in moped gangs and retail theft rings, some carrying guns, are terrorizing the Big Apple, Yonkers, and New Jersey.
Two-man teams snatch pedestrians’ phones and deliver them to Tren de Aragua stash houses, where professional hackers make fraudulent banking transactions and drain cash from all accounts. Then, the phones are wiped clean and shipped to South America for resale.
A 62-year-old woman was brutally dragged down a Brooklyn street by one of these moped thieves who made off with her purse. When you see mopeds, step back from the curb and hug the building — advice usually needed in a third-world city, not New York.
A shopper at JD Sports near Times Square was shot in the leg by baby-faced, 15-year-old migrant Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa when a security guard tried to stop him from robbing the store on Feb. 8. Figueroa whipped out a .45-caliber handgun and shot into the crowd. He has since been apprehended by police.
The next job is to track down the ringleaders who armed him and sent him into the store. The teen had been living in the Stratford Hotel, a city shelter, with his mother and attending school. He is also a suspect in a Jan. 25 incident in Midtown and a Jan. 27 robbery in the Bronx. After his first run-in with cops, the shelter system should have been notified, and Figueroa should have been evicted.
Chicago is also being terrorized. There, professional criminals enlist migrants from the shelters to raid luxury stores at the suburban Oakbrook Center shopping mall, 5 miles west of the city. These migrants wouldn’t have a clue where Oak Brook, an upscale suburb, is, or how to get there without the criminal masterminds.
South American gangs are turning suburban malls into danger zones, explains retired Riverside, Illinois, Police Chief Tom Weitzel. “You’re at one of the suburban malls … pushing your kids in a stroller” and you can get caught in the violence, he said in an interview with Fox News.
“A lot more crossing the border are criminals or have criminal intent than is being publicly said,” Weitzel added.
Paul Mauro, a retired inspector of the NYPD, agrees. The claim that Venezuela is emptying its prisons is accurate, he suggested in a separate interview with Fox News.
Blame President Joe Biden’s open borders, but also the soft-on-crime Democrats in New York and Illinois, whose policies almost guarantee that migrant criminals can rob and assault without ever going to jail.
Hochul sweetens the attraction by guaranteeing asylum seekers cash welfare benefits — something the federal government bars so state and local taxpayers have to foot the entire bill.
On top of that, New York City is court-mandated to guarantee shelter to all, something Mayor Eric Adams should seek to overturn. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny observed that “the network of thieves” lives mostly in the shelter system.
That includes the migrants who beat up two cops at Times Square on Jan. 27. They had a string of previous arrests but were still living in shelters, courtesy of N.Y. taxpayers.
Adams is imposing an 11 p.m. curfew at some shelters. That’s window dressing.
Providing room and board to the same people who rob and threaten us makes no sense. Once migrants get in trouble with the law, the shelter system should be notified and they should be evicted. The only shelter they get should be at Rikers.
The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor.” It doesn’t say your lawbreakers, brutes, and gang leaders.
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Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Biden, Obama, Soros, Schumer and the like are absolutely delighted in all of this.
Not a single democRAT voted to shut the border in congress last week. Every democRAT voted to keep the border undefended.
Exactly. But check out that leftist continuity 100% synchronicity! Those 3 leftist Supreme court seats always 100% hard left votes only! Not a prayer of anything otherwise. No John McCains or Romney.
I remember that part of my oath of enlistment where it says ‘against all enemies both foreign and domestic.’ It is clear who we are talking about. The Progressive New Left is the domestic enemy behind all of this.
Huh? That’s not at all why they (Republicans (I use that term loosely)) voted that bill down. It had provisions that allowed exceptions for almost all the illegals coming in and also discretionary powers to Mayorkas and Border Patrol to determine who was allowed in. It was a joke of a bill. Here is just some of the things in the Bill https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-border-bill-says-non-mexican-children-wont-counted-migrant-total-trigger-mandatory-shutdown.amp Also something about North and South borders would allow 8 different countries to not be counted. One illegal crossing is still illegal. Why have a 5000 limit when just 1 is illegal? Trump fought to get what… Read more »
Sanctuary cities are getting exactly what they asked for, but did not understand the consequence of their actions! Servers them right. Oh and the MORON n’ Chief (Biden) has blood on his hands! PEROID!
The ringleader who is sending them all is Barack Hussein Zer0bama. It ain’t fake Joe. And all his useful idiots such as nearly all of Washington DC. And liberal totalitarians in other places such as NY, Chicago, Michigan, California, Arizona, and RINOS and globalists everywhere. When all those traitors get hung for treason the season will change. Until then, always carry concealed, have a large caliber rifle with a scope in your trunk with 100 rounds of ammo, keep your head on a swivel, stay frosty and enjoy life.
Those damned RINOS! Hey, I’m a Republican too!
I can’t wait until Trump becomes president again and starts sending the trash back where it came from and executing the ones that are selling drugs which he claims he wants. I wish he would add execution of murders and people that do child trafficking and sex rings. I read today that the illegals bring dogs with them to protect them and the US says that they cannot bring the dog into our country, so because of that and the cruelty of these so called people, they cut the dogs legs off so it cannot follow them or they hit… Read more »
just give them all of the drugs they have, they survive gods choice
I certainly wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Turkey Waddles Trump to become president. It has been obvious for a long time that Biden will not be the Pedocrat candidate. Independents and women know Trump is such a complete a$$ that he would not get their votes, including mine as I will be writing in DeSantis. They will end up voting for that Kennedy fool or more likely whoever the Pedocrats run. It just isn’t bad enough for the GOP to get their pouting whining heads out of their collective arse and nominate someone who can actually win. Hopefully folks… Read more »
Well, if you vote for DeSantimounius you might as well not vote at all and thank God you are smart enough not to vote for Kennedy or Hailey but I just cant fathom why you would rather waste your vote on nothing than someone that is on the ticket. But then again Trump won Nevada over Hailey so I guess you might have a chance but I don’t think that DeSantis will be listed as none of the above. LOL
Not much for critical thinking-
Not voting for Trump is a vote for a Democrat-
But thanks anyways-
Why are you even on a gun site-
So be it. Bottom line, I will not cast my vote for a POS. Even though I did in 2020.
Hilariously, your final comments says it all on your ability for critical thinking 😉
Yippee! This has to be my most thumbs down comment ever! 😉 Trumpbots on the prowl. Oh well, love you all even if I’ve morphed into an anti-gunner, leftist, troll, commie, pinko, and all around ne’re-do-well.
Years ago, Michael Savage, said “liberalism is a mental disease”.
No kiding!!!
I started actually realizing that when obummer won and his people started taking over because I started talking to people who claimed and are democrats. Good news is, I am finding even democrats are tired of the BS like what kind of car, refrigerator, stove, gotta wear a mask, gotta get a shot, can’t own a semi auto that they are not going to vote O’biden. So I ask them if there was a different democrat to vote for would the possibly vote for them and some say yes. For the ones that say yes I ask them to name… Read more »
LOL, no I didn’t. So is Romney going to run for the democrap party because he sure as shit couldn’t get anything from the real republican party and in my books I see that is larger than the RINO party. LOL
They would vote for Kennedy instead.
She will never win. Kennedy has a more recognizable name than her.
That ship sailed and sank long ago. Bernie is out just like Hitlary.
Another muslim asshole that needs to be deported.
What good is that if you don’t give him free swimming lessons.
What good is that if you don’t give him free swimming lessons.
I saw a video today where Michael Obummer is doing all the exact moves that Obummer did when he went for election but it is all on the hush, hush. The ugliest first lady this country has ever had or will have is going to run for president. I wonder which lesbian, dyke black bitch is going to be her running mate. Oh, Kamala toe comes to mind.
Actually, that is a misstatement. Progressivism is a mental disease stemming from Darwinism. Classical liberalism is the foundation of our culture.
Representative democracy has always been considered one of the pillars of our Classical Liberalism; but In my observation, representative democracy does not work in a lazy, poorly educated welfare state.
We are months away from open civil war here in the Southwest. Simple statement of fact. I have been in five. It sounds, smells and tastes like civil war. And for those of you who did not get to go to our finer Command and Staff and War Colleges here is the definition of a civil war: Locals lose faith in their political leadership to solve problems so they take action on their own. Direct action.
WE THE PEOPLE must elect those that WILL aid TRUMP in upholding the CONSTITUTION!
What goods does it do to clean house when you won’t CLOSE THE F’N DOOR!
Overheard at my wife’s place of work:
“I don’t hate you because you’re a “_______”.
I hate you because you’re a dick.
And because you will always be a dick,
I will always hate you.”
So. rule number one if you don’t want to be hated.
DON”T BE A DICK!
Yep – that’s a dick!
this is a result of the progressive mindset. they hate America and want to change into a third world shit hole. this invasion of illegals is how they envision re-making America. they claim diversity, inclusion and equity is what is needed in America, but don’t see what the inclusion and diversity of violent and illegals coming here is causing the in-equity for us citizens and the non-violent illegals. the ONLY solution is to send them all back to their home country and if they want to come here do it according to the immigration laws on the books. like that… Read more »
No more Third World immigration. If you are not the proverbial rocket scientist or brain surgeon, we neither need nor want you. There is no more 40 acres and a mule.
Time to cIean house????!?!?!! Other countries HAVE cIeaned house and they are sending them here!
Politicians are responsible for pushing this agenda and allowing it to happen. Their constant infringement to disarm lawful citizens while leaving criminals free to wreak havoc is the ultimate hypocrisy.
It’s not hypocrisy they know exactly what they are doing. Building a hierarchy. It will fail.
Migrant Crime Turning Cities Into War Zones, Time to Clean House
“Migrant Crime” my aching ass. They’re not “Migrant” – they’re illegal aliens. Parsing words – tactics of the liberals.
What happened to “wetbacks” and “scratchbacks”?
Biden is just like a sworn military sentry derelict on post. Ten years Portsmouth Naval Prison for starters!
And here in Arizona communities such as DC Ranch, Troon and other elite Scottsdale addresses are being raided by gangs of Venezuelan home invasion robbers. Scottsdale PD is helpless to stop it. These are million dollar plus neighborhoods populated by the corporate elite of America. If anyone. does not see a Red Dawn happening before our very eyes I can refer you to a very good eye doc who might be able to help you out. And this invasion is fueled by the willful dereliction of duty on the part of the O’Biden Regime and an army of Rogue Federal… Read more »
They got much to look forward to. Every day, somebody just like um’ gets discovered as a rapper.
Gawd, how I hate pop culture in general; and rap “music” in particular. And all I can say about Taylor Swift is, at least it’s not rap.
I live a sheltered life in a small one traffic light town. I like that.
I ventured into Portland last Sunday to see Gov’t Mule at the Roseland. Brought 2 guns with me. (not to the show of course) . Didn’t experience any crime, but was surprised at the number of street people on SW Burnside.
WE THE PEOPLE allowed this by inaction!
this a voter problem.
there is only one way to solve this problem!
the presidency,34 senators, the entire house,44 state legislatures, and11 governors are up for election this year.
VOTE!
Time tpi take out the trash.
Time to take out the trash.
This is not an accident, it’s a program.
Keep voting for the democrats you well get a lot more of the same.
Seems to be a problem only in Democrat rin sanctuary cities. Maybe the idiots that voted for those Democrats will finally see the light.
Too Bad So Sad, Americans wanted Biden, now live with him. Brainless Idiots.
Nobody on this forum is surprised by this.
How about mandatory executions for illegals that commit a crime while here illegally.
Age should not matter.
Misdemeanor or Felony does not matter.
do you suppose the politicians knew importing criminals from other countries would not raise crime rates? well daaaaaaaaaaaa, sure they did. but they didn’t care what it would do to Americans. they cared that the illegals would vote dumb as crap forever. will you wake up to the dumb as crap’s evil plans for you in time to stop them? probably not cause you can’t fix stupid. can you?