Trump to slam Hochul over immigration at Syracuse rally after NYPD detective stabbing, Bronx ICE shooting
WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to tear into Gov.Kathy Hochul over New York’s “sanctuary” status when he rallies with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse on Friday following a pair of violent incidents that have outraged both sides of the immigration debate.Last week, two illegal immigrants with criminal rap sheets allegedly stabbed an off-duty New York Police Department detective in the Bronx after attempting to rob him.
The suspects, 25-year-old D’Angelo Caraballo and 24-year-old Sneider Mejia Bautista, both Dominican nationals, were nabbed early Wednesday after attempting to hide in a basement in Lynn, Mass.Caraballo was previously thrown in the slammer for reckless driving, unlawful fleeing from an officer, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, and more.Local cops released him after his December 2024 arrest.Meanwhile, Bautista was arrested in October of last year for grand larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, stealing property, and other offenses before being set free after the NYPD opted against enforcing ICE’s detainer.Then on Thursday afternoon, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot and wounded Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old suspected migrant gang member, while a 5-year-old boy believed to be his son sat in the back of his SUV in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx.The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Belgal is suspected of links to the notorious Trinitarios gang and has “a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession.”“This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk.”In August, Hochul signed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, imposing limits on certain types of statewide cooperation with ICE on civil immigration matters.“N...