More than 1,000 illegal migrants in New York City are likely gang members who are free to roam the streets, new federal data shows.
A total of 1,053 migrants in the Big Apple are “suspected or known gang members,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data obtained by the New York Post.
The city is still groaning under an influx of more than 223,000 illegal migrants over than past two years.
An eye-popping 759,218 people who crossed the border illegally were living in the city as of November 17, according to federal authorities.
Of those migrants, 58,626 have been convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, ICE data shows.
Members of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua try to recruit migrant children in city-run shelters, the NYPD believes.
“We have 39 members of TDA that have been identified and we have an additional four members that have been identified of a subgroup called Little Devils of 42nd Street. Those are much younger kids,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
Migrants have also made headlines for attacking police officers.
Earlier this month, two migrants, one with a loaded AR-15, scuffled with police and were arrested. One was released without bail, and the other was sent to Rikers Island on a $25,000 bond, which he posted.
In February, another migrant gave the middle finger to cameras when he was released after allegedly beating NYPD officers with a mob in Times Square.
New York City has scrambled to house and feed the hundreds of thousands of new migrants, opening hundreds of emergency shelters.
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Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been clear that the crisis is an unsustainable emergency.
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams said last year. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”
Adams threatened to dramatically slash the city’s budget, freezing police hiring, cutting school funding, and closing libraries on Sundays, but many of those cuts were reversed as the city received more state funding and started forcing migrants out of free housing after a certain period.
The city has already spent about $5 billion on the migrant crisis and is projected to spend up to $12 billion through September of next year.
Across the country, there are now nearly 7.8 million illegal migrants, federal data shows.
Of those, a total of 662,586, just around 8.6% have been convicted of crimes or have charges pending, according to ICE data through July 21.
President-elect Donald Trump’s appointed “border czar” Tom Homan claimed the number is much higher — he said there are “over 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens in this country with orders for removal who we’ll be looking for.”
The second Trump administration has plans for a massive deportation operation to remove criminal illegal migrants.
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More than 1,000 illegal migrants in New York City are likely gang members who are free to roam the streets, new federal data shows.
A total of 1,053 migrants in the Big Apple are “suspected or known gang members,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data obtained by the New York Post.
The city is still groaning under an influx of more than 223,000 illegal migrants over than past two years.
An eye-popping 759,218 people who crossed the border illegally were living in the city as of November 17, according to federal authorities.
Of those migrants, 58,626 have been convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, ICE data shows.
Members of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua try to recruit migrant children in city-run shelters, the NYPD believes.
“We have 39 members of TDA that have been identified and we have an additional four members that have been identified of a subgroup called Little Devils of 42nd Street. Those are much younger kids,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
Migrants have also made headlines for attacking police officers.
Earlier this month, two migrants, one with a loaded AR-15, scuffled with police and were arrested. One was released without bail, and the other was sent to Rikers Island on a $25,000 bond, which he posted.
In February, another migrant gave the middle finger to cameras when he was released after allegedly beating NYPD officers with a mob in Times Square.
New York City has scrambled to house and feed the hundreds of thousands of new migrants, opening hundreds of emergency shelters.
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been clear that the crisis is an unsustainable emergency.
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams said last year. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”
Adams threatened to dramatically slash the city’s budget, freezing police hiring, cutting school funding, and closing libraries on Sundays, but many of those cuts were reversed as the city received more state funding and started forcing migrants out of free housing after a certain period.
The city has already spent about $5 billion on the migrant crisis and is projected to spend up to $12 billion through September of next year.
Across the country, there are now nearly 7.8 million illegal migrants, federal data shows.
Of those, a total of 662,586, just around 8.6% have been convicted of crimes or have charges pending, according to ICE data through July 21.
President-elect Donald Trump’s appointed “border czar” Tom Homan claimed the number is much higher — he said there are “over 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens in this country with orders for removal who we’ll be looking for.”
The second Trump administration has plans for a massive deportation operation to remove criminal illegal migrants.
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