On the heels of a high-profile assault on New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers by teen members of the ultraviolet Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Fox News has confirmed that migrants are committing crimes by the thousands in New York City shelters.
According to the data, 3,219 migrants living in 48 shelters across the city were arrested a total of 4,884 times between Jan. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024.
The top three crimes committed by the migrants were thefts at 1,285, assaults at 544 and drug crimes at 497. Migrants were also charged in 493 grand larceny incidents, 236 robberies and 141 sex crimes.
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Further, the data says that the number of crimes committed within 1,000 feet of the 48 migrant shelters during the same time period was 16,371. More than 3,200 migrants listed a shelter as their permanent address.
According to the data, the total number of migrants living in all shelters in the city was more than 24,000 as of Jan. 1, 2023. That number had increased to more than 59,000 as of Oct. 31, 2024, and peaked at more than 69,000 during that period.
Today’s population at all migrant shelters in the city is 39,500, according to the data.
The NYPD did not immediately return a request for comment.
New York City Hall said in a statement that Mayor Eric Adams’ administration opened hundreds of emergency shelters after a “humanitarian crisis” came to the city in 2022 as migrants poured in. Calls for federal help “went largely unreturned,” city hall said.
“And when the mayor stated that a massive influx of individuals unable to provide for their families would naturally lead to some individuals committing crime, he was wrongly accused of being anti-immigrant. Still, citywide crime continued to decline, and no family with children was forced to sleep on the street.
“Today, we are in our 10th straight month of our migrant population declining in our shelter system, and we expect over 50 sites to close by July of this year, including all but two of the sites made in this information request. We are proud of our work, but will never be dishonest to New Yorkers about the situation the federal government left our city — and so many others across the country — in.”
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Illegal alien gang crime in the city came to the forefront Tuesday when the NYPD confirmed that two of its officers were surrounded and beaten by known teenage members of Tren de Aragua in Times Square on Friday night.
Five of the 11 suspects, all illegal aliens from Venezuela, have been arrested in connection with the attack, which involved the migrant crew throwing glass bottles, basketballs and rocks at NYPD officers who were responding to a robbery.
The youngest suspect in the attack is 12 years old, and police sources said that two of the suspects were picked up by their migrant parents, and one is being charged as an adult for riot and assault, according to police.
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The teen gang members are part of a Tren de Aragua subset called Los Diablos de 42 and have been known to police since 2022 in connection with a string of robberies.
Many of them had been jailed before but released because of lax juvenile crime policies in the city, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Fox News’ Seth Andrews contributed to this report.
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