Exclusive | White House blasts NYCs reckless sanctuary policies causing death of innocents
The White House on Saturday slammed New York City for being a sanctuary city for immigrants and for creating conditions that have led to violent crimes and other chaos.“Radical Democrat politicians must stop releasing criminal illegal aliens from jails into our communities,” fumed White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis.“These reckless policies have consequences and far too often they are the death of innocent Americans.
Extreme Democrats must stop putting criminal illegal aliens above American citizens.”The Trump administration is vigorously defending the actions of ICE agents who shot criminal migrant Oscar Belgal, 28, in the Bronx Thursday — arguing that situations like his could have been avoided had NYPD handed over suspects to immigration authorities before releasing them.The Dominican migrant had a lengthy criminal record yet stayed on the streets under New York’s bail and sanctuary policies, according to sources and court records.Belgal is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022.
A year later, he robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights, and he was convicted in 2025.Within months, he was allegedly caught selling drugs, and sources say he is tied to a violent street gang.Belgal’s case is not the only one the administration is pointing to.
Several high-profile cases involving suspects previously arrested and released by the NYPD have become central to its argument.D’Angelo Caraballo and Sneider Mejia Bautista, the illegal aliens accused in the stabbing of off-duty NYPD Det.Jose Mercedes last week, had been previously arrested on separate charges and released.
Authorities say they pulled up to Mercedes on an e-bike, then tried to snatch his gold chain.When he fought back, he was stabbed seven times.
Cristian Aybar-Berroa, 22, and Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, the suspects who shot an off duty Customs and Border Protection agent during a July moped robbery in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, had been arrested by the NYPD a...