New York Freed 7,000 Illegal Alien Criminals

Rather than turn them over to ICE.
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“New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The criminals have made it a hole in the ground.”

What’s the cost of sanctuary state and city policies? A perpetual crime wave in which illegal aliens waltz through a revolving door ‘reformed’ criminal system that doesn’t lock them up and hardly inconveniences them as they go back to work preying on Americans.

How bad is it really? 7,000 illegal alien criminals bad.

New York’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since January 20. The crimes of these aliens include 29 homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 dangerous drugs offenses, 300 weapons offenses, and 207 sexual predatory offenses.

There are currently 7,113 aliens in the custody of a New York jurisdiction with an active detainer. The crimes of these aliens include 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 dangerous drugs offenses, 152 weapons offenses, and 260 sexual predatory offenses.

They include such solid citizens as Selman Cevik.

Local authorities arrested Selman Cevik, a criminal illegal alien from Turkey on September 8, 2025, for menacing in the first degree and harassment in the first degree. Cevik is identified as a Known or Suspected Terrorist (KST), with notifications made to the Terrorist Screening Center. Despite an ICE detainer lodged against him, local authorities released Cevik. On September 13, 2025, ICE New York arrested Cevik and he remains detained by ICE, pending immigration proceedings.

But when have Islamic terrorists ever harmed New Yorkers?

At least ICE is doing the work that New York’s woke pols won’t.

The number of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York City in just six months under President Donald Trump’s administration eclipsed the total in the entirety of 2024, according to data reviewed and analyzed by NY1.

While he was a candidate, Trump promised the largest deportation effort in history. Immigration was front and center in the 2024 presidential campaign.

But what will NYC be without its illegal alien terrorists, sex predators and murderers?