Business as usual at NYCs seedy Roosevelt Avenue despite illicit workers saying theyre fearful of Trumps promised ICE crackdown: Im scared every day

It was business as usual on crime-ridden Roosevelt Avenue Monday — despite ICE ramping up immigration enforcement raids and President Trump’s promise of an even tougher crackdown on Democrat-run cities.A smattering of sex workers and knockoff goods-peddlers working the seedy stretch of Queens told The Post they were afraid of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement hitting the area, but not enough to keep them from plying their trades.“I don’t want to be here.I’m scared.

I watch every minute to see if ICE shows up and I’m ready to run,” said Martina, a street walker who came to the US from Venezuela about two years ago.“This has been every day.First I was scared of the police and now I’m scared of ICE.

But what can I do? I have babies at home and I have no husband to provide for us,” she continued.“If ICE takes me, I don’t know what happens to them,” she said.“I’m scared every day.”The thoroughfare has long been a center of migrant criminal activity.Locals earlier this year penned a letter to Trump border czar Tom Homan asking for federal assistance to deal with the rampant street crime they claimed was being spurred by homeless illegal immigrants.

The street was also once a breeding ground for sex-trafficking being perpetrated by gangs like Tren de Aragua, according to law-enforcement sources.Advocates told The Post last year the vicious gang targeted women in city migrant shelters and forced them into sex work.Gov.

Kathy Hochul sent in hundreds of state troopers last fall to take control of the area.The infamous “Market of Sweethearts” — the blighted section of the avenue known for open-air drug markets and streetwalkers strolling its grubby sidewalks in broad daylight — appeared decidedly less shady Monday.But the handful of illicit goods purveyors that remained did so reluctantly, and in spite of the potential risks.Two blocks east, a street vendor hawking imitation designer sunglasses, pocketbooks, toys and other tchot...