On Tuesday, ICE raided the posh knockoff mecca of Canal Avenue.
After the mud settled, they arrested 9 unlawful migrants from Africa, six of whom have prison information. Amongst them was Muhmmned NDiaye of Senegal, who has a rap sheet that reportedly contains theft, home violence, medicine and forgery.
Good riddance, proper?
However this being New York Metropolis in 2025, our activist politicians ran like firefighters to protest the enforcement of our legal guidelines — and, finally, shield unlawful migrants with prison information.
They mobilized swiftly to tangle with ICE, marched to Federal Plaza and gave their thumbs a exercise by blasting federal regulation enforcement on social media.
State Senator Julia Salazar wrote that “ICE terrorized and kidnapped our neighbors in Chinatown.”
Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander thanked “the New Yorkers who mobilized rapidly” to protest. Sandra Nurse, a Metropolis Councilwoman from Brooklyn, posted that “Trump is waging struggle on American cities. We are going to defend ourselves.”
Metropolis Councilman Shekar Krishnan of Queens boasted on X that he had simply got here again from protesting at Federal Plaza and urged assist for his invoice to decriminalize avenue merchandising.
Beleaguered Lawyer Basic Letitia James put out an open name asking for photographs and movies of ICE officers to add into a brand new “portal to evaluation federal immigration enforcement in New York after yesterday’s ICE raid on Canal Avenue.”
Sure, our state’s prime regulation enforcement official arrange a snitch line to go after Federal regulation enforcement. To, basically, support and abet prison habits.
And, no shock, mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani jumped in to tweet: “As soon as once more, the Trump administration chooses authoritarian theatrics that create worry, not security. It should cease.”
The place was all this vitality a few weeks in the past when an harmless man had his head stomped in by a psychotic, violent recidivist after he politely opened a subway station door for him? How about when cops have been assaulted by unlawful migrants or when a homeless girl sleeping on an F practice was incinerated by an unlawful migrant?
These tragic circumstances present main fissures in our system however, alas, they don’t rating any political factors for the resistance.
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine referred to as the Chinatown raid “indefensible and reprehensible.” How about: useful to his constituents?
And has he been to the gauntlet of filth that’s Canal Avenue now?
For many years, it’s been a stretch the place vacationers purchase Louis Vuitton and Rolex knockoffs. However situations have devolved lately. Navigating Canal Avenue is like strolling via a weed-scented third-world bazaar with aggressive distributors sprawled throughout the sidewalks.
It’s turn out to be more and more hostile for residents and small enterprise house owners.
Only a month in the past, NY1 reported that greater than 800 folks had signed a petition urging the NYPD to determine a extra everlasting enforcement to battle the spiraling chaos of Canal Avenue, together with brazen drug offers caught on video.
“Drug use, muggings, folks defecating on the road — it’s filth, and it’s crime that spans manner past simply the unlawful merchandising of purses within the neighborhood,” Mark Elman, who manages a constructing within the neighborhood, informed the outlet. “The primary concern is security.”
Nevertheless, at each flip, our leaders present us that New Yorkers are an afterthought. Their main concern is performative advocacy for unlawful migrants, criminals and dysfunction.
Our metropolis splashed out billions of {dollars} to accommodate and feed unlawful migrants over the previous few years. And Mamdani has pledged to spend $100 million hiring legal professionals to assist these dealing with deportation.
In the meantime, the place does that go away the remainder of us suckers?
Politicians ought to be embarrassed that we let illegals flout our legal guidelines — however they’re shameless and solely care about sticking it to Donald Trump.
In actuality, they’re sticking it to law-abiding New Yorkers.
