In New York City, the American Dream apparently now includes a complimentary criminal record!

Jefferson Maldenado is a 31-year-old migrant from Ecuador who's a regular at NYC's finest correctional institutions.

Since arriving earlier this year, he's already been arrested five times, with his latest offense being the theft of a pair of pants and a beer from Target near Herald Square.

Why did he do it? In his own words:

I wanted to sit down and think about my life, about what to do. Because this is not a normal world.

It sure isn't, Jeffy.

According to an exclusive report from The New York Post, city courts are starting to look like a UN meeting of petty criminals, with migrants packing the dockets at rates even the city's officials didn't see coming — or maybe they just didn't want to see it coming.

According to police sources, as many as 75% of the people being arrested in Midtown Manhattan these days are migrants.

Sounds a bit like a criminal invasion, doesn't it?

Thanks to the city's sanctuary laws, the cops can't even coordinate with ICE to figure out who's here illegally.

Jim Quinn, a former prosecutor from Queens, called it out: "The sanctuary city law is pathetic. It's disgusting. It's crazy."

The city's gone soft, and the criminals know it. Word's out in the shelters: get arrested today, back on the streets tomorrow.

It's practically a revolving door, only without the dignity of a doorman.

And Mayor Eric Adams? He's doing his best impression of a concerned parent who just can't bring himself to discipline his kid. He's asking the City Council to tweak the laws, but the NYPD's hands are tied.

...the spokesperson also noted, 'Police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn't track data pertaining to immigration statuses.'

As a result, the only people who have a full understanding of the scale of the problem are the police officers and court workers who see it day in, day out.

You can't solve a problem if you're not even allowed to see how bad the problem is.

The scale of the issue becomes obvious the moment you dig into the numbers. In some parts of Queens, more than 60% of arrests involve migrants. And it's not just petty theft. We're talking about gang violence, sexual assaults, and domestic disputes. Even the shelters are becoming crime hubs, with Venezuelan gangs smuggling guns in food delivery bags.

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 has 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.

Once one of the safest cities in the world, New York City is becoming a haven for criminals. These migrants know they can come to NYC, commit a crime, and be back on the streets in no time. It's a criminal's paradise, all courtesy of policies that make it easier to commit a crime than to find a decent slice of pizza.

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