ICE New York Metropolis blasted the “reckless” insurance policies of lefty Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani Tuesday — because the company launched the identities of a number of the felony unlawful migrants it had taken off Empire State streets, together with murderers and little one intercourse offenders.
The boys, who had been within the nation illegally from Jamaica, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras, have been convicted of vile crimes together with homicide, rape, sexual abuse of a kid underneath 11, forcible touching of sexual or intimate elements of one other particular person and sexual contact with an individual incapable of consent, based on ICE NYC.
“Whereas sanctuary politicians proceed to prioritize felony unlawful aliens over law-abiding New Yorkers, our officers are on the entrance strains on daily basis protecting our communities secure from murderers, rapists and pedophiles that prey on our most weak residents,” stated ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations Area Workplace Director Kenneth Genalo.
“Defending New Yorkers from felony unlawful aliens will at all times be a precedence for this workplace. We’ll by no means waver in our dedication to arrest felony unlawful aliens and take away them from our nation.”
The company then turned its ire on Hochul and Mamdani for “reckless” anti-ICE insurance policies that “make New York much less secure.”
The newest launch of identities comes on the heels of Hochul’s profitable push to move laws stopping cops from partnering with federal immigration authorities, and barring ICE brokers from most public locations like hospitals and parks.
It additionally follows a persistent sample of laws by Mamdani making it more durable for federal brokers and native regulation enforcement to cooperate with President Trump’s unlawful immigration crackdown.
“New York Metropolis’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an government order turning New York Metropolis right into a protect for violent felony unlawful aliens to reoffend and create extra harmless victims,” ICE NYC stated in an announcement.
Shortly after he took workplace in January, the newly-minted mayor signed an government order to bolster sanctuary protections and shield New Yorkers from “abusive immigration enforcement” by the Trump administration.
“Mamdani’s motion got here after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s legislative proposal to bar native police departments from partnering and cooperating with ICE regulation enforcement,” the company added.
The latest batch of felony unlawful aliens rounded up within the Empire State contains:
- Mosiah Wright, a Jamaican nationwide who was beforehand faraway from the nation who was convicted of homicide by the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Minnesota. His felony historical past additionally contains arrests for carrying a hid weapon illegally, drug possession, resisting arrest and probation violations.
- Jose Fuentes-Saravia, a felony unlawful alien with a ultimate order of removing from El Salvador convicted of sexual abuse, together with sexual contact with particular person lower than 11 years outdated in Suffolk County.
- Vicente Mejia-Marquez, of El Salvador, who was convicted of rape within the third diploma and vaginal sexual contact with an individual underneath 17 in Suffolk County.
- Jose Israel Chapa Flores, an Ecuadorian nationwide convicted of forcibly touching the sexual or intimate elements of one other particular person and performing in a fashion to injure a baby underneath 17 in Suffolk County.
- Blas Alberto Diaz, a beforehand eliminated felony unlawful alien from El Salvador, was convicted of sexual contact with an individual incapable of consent in Nassau County.
- Benjamin Quijada, a felony unlawful alien from El Salvador convicted of assault in Queens and wished for the crimes of intercourse abuse of a minor and little one abuse in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
- Franklin Saul Banegas-Cevallos, a beforehand eliminated felony unlawful alien from Honduras who was convicted of tried drug possession and with a pending cost for tried felony sale of a managed substance in New York.
The entire offenders are at the moment in ICE custody awaiting pending immigration and removing proceedings, based on ICE NYC.
The company insists New York’s failure to honor ICE detainers — which permit immigration authorities to select up convicted criminals for deportation — has resulted within the launch of 6,947 felony unlawful aliens within the state since Jan. 20, 2025.
Their crimes embrace 29 homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 harmful drug offenses, 300 weapons offenses and 207 sexual predatory offenses, ICE claims.
As of Dec. 1, 7,113 aliens at the moment in custody in New York jails and prisons have lively ICE detainers and have been convicted of 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 harmful drug offenses, 152 weapons offenses and 260 sexual predatory offenses, based on the company.
