MAKING SENSE OF NO SENSE

Providing Room & Board to the Same People Who Rob & Threaten Us Makes No Sense 

Police 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.

 

By Betsy McCaughey

 

Texas Insider

Feb 15, 2024

 

 

Betsy McCaughey, PhD, is a former Lt. Governor of New York Staet

Criminals posing as asylum seekers are turning American cities into war zones. Migrants in moped gangs and retail theft rings, some carrying guns, are terrorizing the Big Apple, Yonkers and New Jersey.

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 south of the U.S.-Mexico Border, putting then to work in retail theft rings or on mopeds, grabbing phones and handbags and roughing up pedestrians.

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. 

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.