{"id":214049,"date":"2026-09-04T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/214049\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:30:15","slug":"ice-just-made-ny-safer-despite-hochul-and-mamdanis-best-efforts-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/214049\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE just made NY safer \u2014 despite Hochul and Mamdani&#8217;s best efforts to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are bent on protecting criminals from ICE, yet federal agents nonetheless collared a stunning 2,200 of them in July alone, and with more of that to come.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray for them \u2014 and New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/01\/us-news\/ice-nabs-more-than-2k-illegal-migrants-across-new-york-in-operation-rotten-apple-including-child-rapists-murderers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The arrested include <\/a>full-on murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, gang members, child predators and other monsters nabbed as part of ICE\u2019s \u201cOperation Rotten Apple.\u201d Again: 2,200 in all.<\/p>\n<p>Villains, per the feds, like:<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Detrovich Gren, a Ukrainian national here illegally who was convicted of murder, kidnapping, abduction resulting in death and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Bernal Chiquito, of Colombia, nabbed for sexual conduct against a child and injuring a child under 17.<\/p>\n<p>Palvinder Singh, from India, convicted of rape in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Mendez-Acosta, from Venezuela, also convicted of rape.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone really argue New York isn\u2019t safer without these thugs?<\/p>\n<p>Yet Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE got absolutely \u201cno help\u201d from either Hochul or Mamdani in rounding them up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/26\/opinion\/hochuls-ban-on-cops-working-with-ice-is-an-attack-on-public-safety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hochul has been boasting <\/a>that a law she backed bans local cops from cooperating with federal agents as they pursue illegal-immigrant criminals. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s insane: She even tried to gaslight New Yorkers, claiming that by shielding criminals, her Local Cops, Local Crimes Act will somehow boost public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, too, has put up roadblocks to keep ICE from removing criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Per Homeland Security, New York\u2019s \u201cradical sanctuary policies\u201d account for the release of more than 13,000 criminals back onto the streets.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s supposed to make you feel safer?<\/p>\n<p>The biggest irony: The gov and mayor\u2019s suck-up to pro-criminal lefties produces the exact opposite of what they claim to want \u2014 i.e., keeping ICE agents out of New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause [Hochul and Mamdani] refused to work with us,\u201d promised Mullin, \u201cwe will send as many people as we have possible to make sure we are restoring law and order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember, ICE\u2019s broad, public raids are far more likely to spark clashes with lefty protesters, as they did in February in Lower Manhattan in November and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/05\/opinion\/mamdani-hochul-co-s-anti-ice-extremism-now-puts-public-safety-at-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Brooklyn in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Mamdani and Hochul\u2019s sanctuary pandering not only undermines public safety, it risks more confrontations with ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Mullin and ICE and for doing the job New York pols won\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. 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