NYPD officer: 75% of arrests are migrants

Straight from the horse’s mouth, in this case a “Midtown officer” patrolling the streets in New York City, comes the news that around 75% of the arrests are migrants, with the natural assumption being that they’re the illegal “newcomers” the progressive Democrat crowd keeps marketing to us as our cultural enrichment. From a report at the New York Post:

Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal-justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.
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Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many as 75% of the people they’ve been arresting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery and domestic violence are migrants.
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On any given day, Big Apple criminal court dockets are packed with asylum seekers who have run afoul of the law.

I wonder how much this is costing the taxpayers who staff these courts, provide public defenders, hire translators, and keep the lights on and the food flowing at the jail facilities? Now, think about what this means nationwide.

The Post article also includes the testimony of one of the illegal migrant criminals himself, Jefferson Maldenado, who has been arrested no fewer than five times since crossing the “border” earlier this year—stealing is just so much easier than an honest life in America.

‘They tell you about the American Dream. But when I got here, I saw that it was not like they said. It’s not easy here. It’s no bed of roses,’ said Maldenado, the migrant busted for stealing from Target.

He’s right, stealing is easier than working multiple jobs, giving up expensive personal vices (Maldenado was nabbed stealing beer), penny-pinching and coupon-clipping, while your money is being taxed again, and again, by a tyrannical government.

Walz law let illegals get vote-enabling driver’s licenses, free tuition and free healthcare
Walz’s Immigration Record Mirrors Democratic Push to Blanket Migrants with Freebies
By Michelle Hackman, Aug. 13, 2024, wsj.com

As the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz signed into law 2023 initiatives allowing immigrants in the country illegally
<><>to apply for driver’s licenses,
<><>qualify for free tuition at state universities
<><>and enroll in the state’s free healthcare program for low-income residents.

Walz’s actions on immigration—nearly all taken in the last two years, when Democrats had control of the state Legislature—put him squarely in the mainstream of his party. And his record is in line with the party’s goal to integrate the millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally—most of whom have been here for decades—in the absence of help from Congress.

The record has also fueled one of the Republicans’ leading attacks against the newly minted Democratic vice-presidential nominee as a far-left, open-borders governor out of step with much of the country after years of unprecedented illegal immigration under President Biden.

It is an argument that Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris, who tops the ticket, must counter as they seek to win over undecided voters, who have indicated on opinion surveys that they trust Republicans more to address problems at the southern border. Arrests of migrants crossing the southern border hit record highs during the Biden administration, topping two million two years in a row, though recently the pace has slowed.

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