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Last Monday, Venezuelan migrant Sandra Serrano was shot and killed outside the Randall’s Island migrant shelter, caught in the crossfire in what police think was a retaliatory shooting for a robbery.
Serrano’s murder was the second killing at the 3,000-bed shelter, and at least the eighth migrant-related killing this year.
If Mayor Adams doesn’t want such headlines to govern New Yorkers’ perceptions of migrant crime, City Hall needs to provide hard data.
Serrano’s killing marked four murders in July in which migrants were perpetrators or victims — or both.
Mid-month, two men living in a Brooklyn migrant shelter were shot and killed outside it, likely the victims of a Venezuelan gang hit.
The same night, another Venezuelan migrant died violently in a nearby park — and the alleged shooter in this killing wasn’t a migrant, but a parks worker with whom he had fought, highlighting migrants’ vulnerability, as well.
In June, a migrant fatally shot two Bronx residents after they objected to his squatting in their apartment building. In January, a dispute between migrants, also at Randall’s Island, left one man dead.
Non-fatal crimes include the June rape of a Queens girl, the June shooting of two police officers (also in Queens), the February shooting of a tourist during a Times Square shoplifting attempt, multiple armed robberies and petty theft that often goes unreported.
Do these anecdotes add up to a higher or a lower rate of crime, compared with the Gotham average?
There is no way to know.
Adams says migrant gang members are “extremely dangerous,” but the NYPD doesn’t report crime by immigration status. --->READ MORE HERE
Malliotakis has sent both a letter & submitted a FOIL Request seeking data & NYC officials keep stonewalling
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis today blasted New York City officials for concealing the number of illegal immigrants being arrested in and around New York City migrant shelters following the shooting of two NYPD officers by a Venezuelan national and Tren de Aragua gang member residing at a migrant shelter in Queens earlier this week.
On October 2, 2023, Malliotakis and a bipartisan group of local elected officials sent a letter to NYPD Commissioner Caban requesting information relating to migrant crime in New York City. Having received no response, on January 8, 2024, Malliotakis' office submitted a FOIL Request to obtain the desired information. On January 14, 2024, the city acknowledged the request and said "to expect a response on or about Wednesday, May 22, 2024." However, on May 28, 2024, the city extended the response deadline to August 19, 2024, nearly one year after the original request for information was submitted. As of February 2, 2024, NBC New York reported partial city data that showed at least 1,200 arrests across 30 migrant shelters in New York City. --->READ MORE HERE
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