In this episode of "Try to Control Your Shock and Amazement"...

Police departments in sanctuary cities and their suburbs are reporting crime waves tied to illegal aliens who are summarily released into the country by the Biden administration after crossing the southern border. In particular, Chicago and New York City are suffering significant increases in crimes committed by illegals.

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Police Chief Brian Strockis reported six illegal alien felonies in a recent single day. The chief told Fox News his department has arrested 47 illegals since October 23. 

While on the air with Fox on Tuesday, Strockis said he had just been informed of the arrest of two more Venezuelan illegals for alleged theft. Strockis said there have been at least 175 illegal arrests in Oak Brook during the past year — mostly for property crimes. 

Strockis also said in a Jan. 24 statement:

I believe that six felony arrests in one day illustrates [sic] that migrant criminal activity is a real problem. The amount of these types of arrests that we have had in the last couple of months is significant and would be taxing for any police department. We are well prepared to continue our enforcement efforts and I can assure you that there are easier places to commit these crimes than Oak Brook or DuPage County.

But are they prepared — particularly if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to bus illegals to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's sanctuary, as he should?

Despite the significant increase in illegal alien crime, Strockis told Fox his officers remain motivated.

I will say that we have motivated officers that are determined to keep our community safe and our relationships with area loss prevention agents have never been stronger. I’m thankful for the hard work our officers do every day. This department is extremely proactive and technology-driven. 

The result of that policing philosophy is a lot of arrests, recovered stolen property and many headlines which would lead you to believe we are being targeted. Oak Brook is a very safe place to live, shop, dine and play, and we have every intention of keeping it that way.

"Shockingly," the Department of Homeland Security and ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

Meanwhile, illegal alien pickpocketing teams in New York City are the latest problem for the already-stretched NYPD. “It’s been happening all the time here,” one NYC resident told the New York Post, adding: 

The last few months, it’s been intense. Maybe they spread the word, I don’t know. It’s on Friday and Saturday when it’s busy. They work as a team. It's creepy.

A frustrated officer told the outlet the NYPD already had a hard time before the illegal alien crime wave began.

We have a hard enough time going after actual New Yorkers committing crime. Now we have to deal with a whole different subset of people who arrive here with no means of support, no legal means of working or opportunity. So, I don’t see how this should come as any surprise.

It shouldn't come as a surprise — not to anyone with a shred of common sense, that is.

Here's more:

New York City is currently housing more than 67,000 migrants in hotels out of the more than 172,000 migrants transported to the city since the spring of 2022 after being released by the Biden Administration from the border region. 

Texas Governor Greg Abbott did not begin busing migrants to New York City until August of that year, according to the governor’s office. Since the start of that transportation program, Texas has moved more than 37,500 migrants to New York City.

"Migrants?" Nonsense. Illegal aliens — intentionally allowed into this country ever since Joe Biden's first day in office. 

The Bottom Line

Democrats across America were all in on Biden's Border Crisis from the outset— until Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis started busing illegals to New York City and Chicago, that is, and tens of thousands of other illegals started finding their way to Denver, Los Angeles, San Franciso, and other Democrat-run sanctuary cities. 

Now, not so much. Hypocrisy? In the extreme. Then again, Democrats.

SEE MORE:

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