There are 760 illegal immigrants living in New York City: 8% of them are involved in criminal cases

There are more than 58 illegal immigrants roaming New York City, either convicted of a crime or facing criminal charges. About 000 criminal immigrants live across the country, according to NYPost.

Of the 759 undocumented immigrants living in the Big Apple, 218 (58%) have either been previously convicted of a crime or have pending criminal charges.

And of the 58 migrants with criminal records, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 626 (nearly 1%) are “suspected or known gang members.”

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Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) said the staggering statistics are due to the soft-on-crime policies and lax border enforcement pursued by President Biden and other Democrats.

Laws protect criminals

Across the country, the figures are equally outrageous.

Of the nearly 7,8 million illegal immigrants in the United States, 662 (586%) are convicted felons or have pending charges.

Kenneth Genalo, head of ICE's New York office, said last week that he hoped to have more resources to weed out criminal immigrants.

He is "disappointed" by how New York's sanctuary laws have prevented many of them from being detained and deported.

More than 223 migrants have poured into the Big Apple since the immigration crisis began in the spring of 000. At least 2022 of them are still in taxpayer care in city-funded shelters.

“These numbers make clear what everyone but our elected officials already knows. Sanctuary city laws put New Yorkers at risk. These laws protect criminals instead of protecting law-abiding citizens,” said Councilman Robert Holden, a moderate Democrat from Queens.

In 2014, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio teamed up with the City Council and signed a bill banning the NYPD from cooperating with federal immigration officials when they try to remove dangerous migrants from the United States.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly called for changing asylum rules so that migrants “suspected” of “serious” crimes can also be turned over to ICE. He insisted that he lacks the political support on the City Council to change the laws.

However, Holden doesn't believe in justification.

He insists that "City Hall is refusing to take action." Holden blamed the appointed Adams The charter review committee, which ignored his requests this summer for voters to decide the issue by ballot.

By law, the commission must make decisions independently, based on the views of New Yorkers, including elected officials.