According to an article from the NY POST, some federal immigration bigwigs are calling for the ICE office at the Rikers Island jail complex to reopen. Previously the NY POST had reported how some local lawmakers were asking for the same thing.

ICE New York Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo seems onboard with Trump’s promised mass deportations and has been vocal about how he thinks NY needs to cooperate with the feds to allow these mass deportations to occur. According to him, “Sanctuary policies only protect the criminals…” and “this insanity needs to stop!!” He feels so strongly about this that he took the time to post that sentence on his LinkedIn page.

City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said the office is needed amid a spike in migrant crime over the past two years — a dynamic he blamed largely on the Big Apple’s immigration “sanctuary city” status according to the NY POST Article.

Rikers needs to close for good. We do not need to reopen anything there. This seems like a bad idea for that reason and it’s a bad idea because we simply don’t need more ICE offices in NY. Crime is not on the rise because of immigrants. It is a talking point that has gotten out of hand because the media is loving the narrative.

Trump’s second term is looking like it is going to be even worse than people may realize. Many are expecting things to go back to how it was during his first term but it looks like things are going to be even worse this time. Plus we now have Democrats calling for an ICE office in NY and for NY to start cooperating with ICE and turning over immigrants with ICE detainers. It seems the entire country and New York has shifted a bit to the right in the last four years and people are much more open to fascism and an all-powerful executive branch now. It doesn’t help that NYC’s current mayor is looking for any reason to get the spotlight off of his crimes and focused on the immigrant population and seems to have suddenly developed a man crush for Trump or hasn’t yet been told that the President can’t pardon him once he’s convicted by the State of NY.

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