Will NY pols finally come to their senses after shooting of CBP agent by an illegal immigrant?
The 42-year old off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer was sitting in a park with a friend when two armed thugs rolled up on a moped aiming to mug the unsuspecting pair.
One shot the agent in the face, yet the hero agent somehow managed to fire back.
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No surprise: Both suspects turned out to be illegal immigrants who slunk in during the Biden border rush.
Alleged triggerman Miguel Mora, 21, has a lengthy record of arrests for violent crimes in The Bronx and Massachusetts, and a deportation order back to the Dominican Republic, to boot.
Christhian Aybar-Berroa also has violent-crime rap sheet with an order of removal to the DR.
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Aybar-Berroa and Mora were each stopped at the border and then ushered into the country.
That was the norm for four long years: Joe Biden opened the doors wide and invited any miscreant or predator who made his way to the Mexican border to come in and make himself at home.
That was the start of a cascade of policy failures pushed by progressives.
Miguel Mora allegedly shot the federal agent.
Obtained by NY Post Christhian Aybar-Berroa was also arrested in connection to the shooting.
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Start with Biden himself. On the very day he was inaugurated, the new prez fulfilled his campaign promise to halt all deportations for 100 days.
We don't know exactly how many people crossed the border, or who they are — but Biden's border-jumpers clearly number in the millions
New York state, too, played a catastrophic role in helping Mora and Aybar Berroa pursue their perverted 'American Dream.'
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Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democrats in Albany passed disastrous criminal-justice 'reforms,' including the elimination of cash bail in 2019.
Soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors released perps with abandon.
How'd that work out? Failures to appear and rearrests for new crimes rose, predictably. Thugs like Mora and Aybar Berroa were often freed minutes after being booked.
Gov. Kathy Hochul added to the damage by extending a Cuomo-era order that makes New York a 'sanctuary jurisdiction.'
State employees are directed not to cooperate with federal immigration officers.
The result: New York City has become a haven for illegal immigrants who want to prey on locals.
Its 'sanctuary' laws removed ICE from Rikers Island and forbade NYPD and Corrections from handing almost anyone over to the feds.
And remember: New York pols are generally on the side of the criminals; the City Council openly says it designs laws to minimize the 'immigration consequences' for illegal migrants.
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And if ICE comes to arrest you, you can count on clowns like city Comptroller Brad Lander to create a scene — assuming there's a camera nearby.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got it wrong when she blamed Mayor Eric Adams for the city's sanctuary-city rules. He's actually fought to roll them back and has tried to cooperate with ICE officials when legally allowed to.
But she was 1,000% right in fuming that there's 'zero reason' someone 'who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City.'
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President Donald Trump has done his bit by closing the border and empowering ICE to deport violent criminal illegal immigrants.
But progressives have fought him tooth and nail to keep us unsafe, helping create an environment where an innocent border agent gets shot in a park.
How many more such shootings before they come to their senses?
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