NYC Crime Increasing Due To Migrants

Law enforcement in New York City reported that following the influx of more than 170,000 migrants into the city, crime rates have started to increase. The jump in crime also follows a significant increase in other offenses in the city over the past five years.

New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Patrol John Chell told local media earlier this week that there had been an “uptick” in crime due to the increase in migrants. He also said that such “trends in migrant crime” are “hurting our city a little bit.”

Recently, a ring of migrants were arrested in relation to street thefts and other crimes. Several men were arrested after a video was released of a robbery in which a woman was injured in an attack by a man on a moped, who also robbed her.

Chell said that the behavior was “mob-like” and that “we’re seeing these trends start to get bigger and bigger, and it’s adding to our everyday New Yorkers’ crime and we’re trying to put a lid on it.”

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The number of migrants entering the city has significantly increased since the Biden administration announced the end of former President Donald Trump’s Title 42 asylum policy last year.

New York has put the migrants into a number of different housing units, including hotels, shelters and even a former airfield. The situation has led to New York even starting to send migrants to other parts of the state.

Despite the city’s longstanding commitment to not cooperate with federal law enforcement to deport illegal immigrants, New York has begun distributing fliers in Spanish telling migrants that the city was full and not to come.

Furthermore, there has been specific attention to the increase in migrant-related crime following an attack by several illegal immigrants on NYPD officers in Times Square which was caught on camera.

Several of the suspects fled the state after their arrest, traveling to California by bus under assumed names. Law enforcement believes that they have recaptured the offending illegal immigrants.