By Joe Marino, Jennie Taer, Craig McCarthy and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon | New York Post
The Big Apple’s migrant-friendly “sanctuary city” status has allowed the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to flourish in local migrant shelters, hamstringing cops and keeping immigration agents in the dark, law enforcement sources tell The Post.
The gang has infiltrated the shelter system to build a criminal enterprise that peddles drugs, guns and women in the five boroughs — but the restrictive policy largely bars the NYPD from policing the facilities and prohibits the city from tipping off federal immigration agents about dangerous illegal immigrants, the sources said.
“It was an unintended consequence of this administration’s policies,” a source with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York told The Post. “However, the New York City Council and the mayor’s office [exacerbated] the issue with polices that ignore federal law.