Midtown Manhattan, once known for the Empire State Building, Grand Central and Times Square, is now known as a hellish gang area overrun by the violent criminal migrants flooding through the open borders.
How bad is it? Even at a time of highly elevated crime rates (despite false claims by the Biden-Harris administration and its media allies that crime is at a “50-year low), migrants now make up 3 out of 4 criminals arrested in Midtown Manhattan.
Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal-justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.
Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many as 75% of the people they’ve been arresting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery and domestic violence are migrants. In parts of Queens, the figure is more than 60%, sources there estimate.
On any given day, Big Apple criminal court dockets are packed with asylum seekers who have run afoul of the law.
And since, post ‘criminal justice reform’, there’s no functioning criminal justice system, just revolving door diversion programs and no bail, and since NYC is a sanctuary city that doesn’t turn over illegal alien criminals to immigration authorities, the crime never stops.
Another Manhattan cop said that excluding petty larcenies at drug stores, the number of local arrests involving migrants is “easily” 75%, noting that most who get caught shoplifting go more for the pricey branded goods.
“They can’t be bothered with lower-end stores. They like Lululemon and Sunglass Hut,” he said, adding that migrants are behind “most” of the pickpocketing and phone and chain snatches the NYPD is encountering.
The problem is visible in Queens courts, too.
“There are days we have so many migrant cases we have to call in for extra Spanish interpreters,” a law-enforcement officer at Queens Criminal Court House told The Post.
Another court officer said, “Come on Mondays! Almost every case is a migrant.”
Meanwhile, Tren de Aragua – the vicious Venezuelan prison gang wreaking armed havoc around the country — has set up shop in NYC and is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops who were trying to arrest a member in June.
The very same pack of thugs have been arming up to facilitate further terrorizing the city, smuggling guns into city-run shelters in food delivery bags to evade metal detectors.
“Most of the people we arrest are professionals — these aren’t their first crimes,” one law enforcement source said.
This is the open borders nightmare that cities from New York City to Denver to Chicago are living through.