As top Trump officials talk tough on deporting criminal migrants, we direct their attention to Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
On Thursday, border czar Tom Homan vowed that Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the Guatemalan sicko who burned a 57-year-old woman alive on the F train in December, would face justice, despite the city’s refusal to turn him over to ICE for deportation.
“If we have to sit outside that jail every day, 24/7, we’ll get our hands on him,” Homan said.
In other words: The nation’s laws will be upheld, sanctuary city or not.
The day before, freshly sworn-in US Eastern District US Attorney John J. Durham swore to crack down on gangs, drug dealers and terrorist groups across Queens, Long Island, Staten Island and Brooklyn.
Note that President Trump has declared Tren de Aragua and other criminal migrant gangs to be terror outfits.
Durham said his office will work “to dismantle these ruthless organizations from the top down in order to stop the violence, flow of drugs and dangers they unleash in our district and across the nation.”
Godspeed on that; the Empire State’s own leaders sure weren’t doing it.
The first stop for Durham and his team should be Roosevelt Avenue, which has been plagued by disorder and crime thanks to the migrant crisis, especially after Tren de Aragua set up shop there, flooding the area with drugs and prostitutes.
Locals have been begging authorities for help and have seen frustratingly little progress.
Even when cops make arrests, the criminals just keep showing back up, thanks to the city’s sanctuary status and the state’s revolving-door justice system.
The feds, unburdened by those insane progressive policies, can actually put the ringleaders of the scourge behind bars — or ship them out of the country entirely.
Keeping their promise to clean out the crime rot would garner a lot of gratitude and trust from long-suffering New Yorkers who have watched their neighborhoods go to hell — just look at locals’ overwhelmingly positive response to ICE getting violent criminal migrants off their streets.
All of which just might inspire New York’s Democratic electeds to finally get real about the drivers of decay before the public draws the obvious conclusions and votes accordingly.
