While court fights over illegal immigration drag on, and while grandstanding Democrat politicians slobber over deported MS-13 members while ignoring the mother of a young woman murdered by an illegal alien gang member - and that's just this week - Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been out there doing their job.
On Friday, we learned that ICE, working with several other agencies, has been busy cleaning up in New York City. Over 200 illegal aliens have been arrested between April 6th and 12th.
ICE and several federal law enforcement agencies arrested over 200 illegal aliens in an "enhanced immigration enforcement operation" in the "most crime-infested neighborhoods" in and around New York City in just one week this month.
According to a statement by ICE released on Wednesday, 206 illegal immigrants, the majority of whom have "egregious criminal histories to include manslaughter, rape, assault, drug trafficking and sex assault against minors," were apprehended as part of the operation.
The operation took place in New York City and throughout Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley region between April 6-12.
The effort was aimed at the worst of the worst, in accordance with the Trump administration's stated goal of removing violent criminals and gang members as a priority. And many of these were some pretty bad people, including known gang members:
According to the ICE statement, the agency and partners targeted "egregious criminal alien offenders," including transnational criminal organizations like the recently designated international terrorist organizations MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as well as the violent Sureños and 18th Street gangs.
The agency said many of the arrests were made after local authorities in New York refused to honor immigration detainers filed by ICE and instead released the illegals back into the community.
Of the 206 arrested, ICE said 121 had major criminal convictions or are currently facing charges for murder, assault, arson, sex crimes, drug crimes and firearms crimes.
It's unclear why people with major criminal convictions and who were in the country illegally were allowed to remain in the United States, but things are different now.
We note as well that many of these people were in the possession of local authorities but were released back onto the streets, as the city of New York ignored legitimate ICE detainers.
It's interesting that nationally, Democrats appear to be choosing this among several different 80-20 or even 95-5 issues to stake their future election success on. New York's Mayor Adams, currently seeking re-election as an independent, would appear to agree; in a statement to Fox News, the mayor said:
"One of the big mistakes that's being made in some parts of the far-left philosophy is that ICE is a criminal organization. They are not, they are part of our law enforcement community," he said, adding, "We have to get bad, dangerous people off our streets."
In any sane world, this would be a bipartisan issue, resisted by nobody in elected office. Not long ago, it would have been. Not only are these people in the country illegally, but at least half of them have records of major crime, and yet some will agitate that they be allowed to remain. Madness.
ICE, in New York, is doing that job that New York City officials seem unwilling to do: to "get bad, dangerous people" off the streets.
Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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