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New York Post
21-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Will NY pols finally come to their senses after shooting of CBP agent by an illegal immigrant?
Saturday night's shooting of a border agent by an illegal immigrant sums up nearly everything wrong with progressive policies — on the border, crime, New York's sanctuary-city status and more. 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. Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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. @sec_noem Advertisement 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.' Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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.' Advertisement 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?
New York Post
21-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump demands an end to ‘complete disaster' cashless bail: ‘The worst criminals are flooding our streets'
President Donald Trump demanded cashless bail end immediately on Monday, citing crime in U.S. cities, as well as increased attacks on law enforcement. 'Crime in American Cities started to significantly rise when they went to CASHLESS BAIL. The WORST criminals are flooding our streets and endangering even our great law enforcement officers,' Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. 'It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, IMMEDIATELY!' Trump wrote. The post was published as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference in New York City after visiting a Customs and Border Protection officer who was shot while off-duty on Saturday night. The suspect is a previously deported Dominical national, who Noem said has a 'rap sheet that is a mile long,' has an active warrant against him in Massachusetts for armed robbery with a firearm, and who has been arrested in New York City four separate times. Noem criticized the open border policies under former President Joe Biden, as well as sanctuary polices in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago in particular in the wake of the shooting. 'When I look at what Mayor Adams has done to New York City, it breaks my heart to see the families that have suffered because of his policies,' Noem said. 'We can look across this country at other mayors. We look at Mayor Wu in Boston and what has happened there under her watch, what's happened in LA with the riots and the violence and the protests that have gone on because of Mayor Bass and what she has perpetuated. When you look at Mayor Johnson in Chicago and how devastating it is to live in that city in some of those poorest communities, how they suffer every single day with the violence that's in front of them.' 4 'It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, IMMEDIATELY!' Trump wrote. Gripas Yuri/ABACA/Shutterstock 4 The suspect is a previously deported Dominical national, who Noem said has a 'rap sheet that is a mile long.' New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, has been a strong critic of the state's cashless bail law, which was enacted by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2019 and perpetuated under his successor, current Gov. Kathy Hochul. Cuomo, while campaigning for mayor, has noted the cashless bail law has faced amendments that increased judicial discretion in recent years, but he has defended criminal justice reform broadly as a correction of racial and income inequities. Adams, who has argued Cuomo-era bail reforms drove up recidivism rates, resulting in offenders repeatedly being arrested and released back on the streets, now faces the former governor in November's mayoral election. Adams and Cuomo are both independent candidates in the contest, where Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani is seen as the front-runner after his June primary win. Mamdani has promoted radical initiatives, such as eliminating all cash bail and abolishing prisons. 4 Kristi Noem held a press conference in New York City after visiting a Customs and Border Protection officer who was shot while off-duty. Paul Martinka Under his tenure, Cuomo pushed policies discouraging state agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While Adams initially defended New York City's 'sanctuary' status, he grew critical of the Biden administration amid surges of illegal immigrants arriving to the Big Apple from the southern border and has more recently cooperated with the Trump administration's border czar, Tom Homan, on immigration enforcement. DHS reported last week that ICE officials are facing an 830% increase in assaults in the first six months of Trump's term compared to the same time period last year. Illinois, meanwhile, broadly eliminated all cash bail in 2023 with a provision included in law known as the SAFE-T Act. The provision, dubbed the Pretrial Fairness Act, was endorsed by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who argued at the time that 'cash bail does not make communities safer' and 'has simply exacerbated existing inequities and disparities in the criminal legal system,' according to FOX 32 Chicago. 4 Noem criticized the open border policies under former President Joe Biden, as well as sanctuary polices in New York City. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Former and current Chicago-area police officials recently spoke to FOX 32 condemning the SAFE-T Act, arguing the elimination of cash bail helps criminals and harms police officers. In Los Angeles County, what's known as the 'Pre-Arraignment Release Protocol (PARP)' took effect in October 2023, eliminating cash bail for most nonviolent offenses. It was met with an initial wave of lawsuits from 12 cities who argued the zero-bail switch jeopardized public safety. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County in March defended the protocol in a report that argued judges can conduct individualized risk assessments based on a suspect's criminal history, flight risk and offense severity.
