Your kids arenât safe even in broad daylight. An Ecuadoran migrantheld a boy and a girl, both 13, at knifepoint in a park near their Queens school last week, molesting the girl and robbing them of their cellphones.
There is a remedy.
In November, voters everywhere, including New York City, will get to choose between the Democratic Partyâs open border policy and Republican former President Donald Trumpâs promise to crack down on illegal immigration and deport millions who are here illegally.
But New York City voters deserve to have an additional choice in November â between keeping the lunatic âsanctuary cityâ laws that shield migrant criminals from deportation or repealing those laws. Repeal would allow migrant criminals to be deported after their first offense before they go on to rape and murder.
Last week, eight members of the New York City Councilâs Common Sense Caucus fired off a letter to the Charter Revision Commission â the body with the power to put questions on the ballot in November â explaining that the City Council refuses to repeal sanctuary city laws. Since the City Council wonât act, let voters decide.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ducking the issue. This despite previously voicing support for cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Now his office says it is the Charter Revision Commissionâs job to decide what ballot questions go before New Yorkers.
Wrong, Mr. Mayor. It is your job, as the cityâs top official, to stand up against the loony lefties in the City Council and support deporting migrant criminals after their first offense.
The Ecuadoran molester was nabbed on Monday when good Samaritans recognized him from sketches circulated by police. Jeffrey Flores pounced on the creep and dragged him to the floor with help from others. âI got two little sisters, and Iâm about to have a daughter on the way,â Flores said of the assault. âI donât like that.â
Across the nation, gruesome crimes are fueling opposition to illegal migration. On Monday, Trump blamed President Joe Biden for the murder of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, raped and killed on a hiking trail in Maryland, her naked and bludgeoned body found in the woods nearby. A 23-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador is charged. He is believed to have murdered a woman in El Salvador previously and attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles.
Only a tiny fraction of migrants are dangerous criminals, but the migrant-advocacy-industrial complex â including the American Civil Liberties Union â insists criminals deserve sanctuary from deportation even after they commit a crime.
Blame Biden for allowing ruthless criminals to come across the border. But sanctuary city laws are to blame for the epidemic of crimes by repeat offenders.
Not to mention New Yorkâs over-the-top generosity. The Ecuadoran mugger gave a shelter as his address, as do many arrested migrants. He was walking around the Queens neighborhood, enjoying the good life, on our tab until he was recognized and captured.
Michigan Republicans are renewing efforts to ban sanctuary cities statewide after an illegal immigrant murdered a 25-year-old woman, Ruby Garcia, in Grand Rapids in March. The illegal who confessed to the murder had multiple arrests. Republican lawmaker Matt Hall explained that sanctuary laws âinvite proven criminals like Rubyâs killer, to come where they can hide from deportation even if theyâre arrested for another crime.â
Amen.
When Biden and Trump debate next week, expect Biden to vilify Trumpâs deportation plans. Substackâs Radley Balko blasts Trumpâs deportation promise as the âcruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history.â
Truth is, Trumpâs promise may be his most powerful political weapon. And itâs the opposite of authoritarian. Deporting illegals is what the lawâenacted by the peopleâs elected representativesârequires.
The Immigration and Nationality Act requires that when someone crosses the border, claiming to seek asylum, the alien âshall be detained until their claim is adjudicated.â Most never qualify. But Biden is waiving in millions of pretend asylum seekers.
Biden is the authoritarian. But heâs ignoring public opinion at his peril,
A whopping 62% of registered voters favor deporting anyone living in the U.S. illegally, according to a CBS poll.
Trump has yet to lay out his deportation plan. But deporting criminals is the place to start. That will require the cooperation of local law enforcement and an end to sanctuary city policies that coddle lawbreakers.
Itâs time to give the law-abiding public sanctuary and safety, not migrant criminals.
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.
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