New York taxpayers are being forced to subsidize criminals. This is the pass that our greatest city has come to. The taxpayers of the Big Apple are being soaked for the housing, feeding, and medical care for people who shouldn’t be in the country at all, thanks to that city’s “sanctuary” status. Some of those illegal aliens are criminals, preying on New Yorkers, tourists, and even other illegal immigrants; and one of them, a member of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the “Little Devil,” is only 15 – and because of his age and New York’s liberal juvenile crime laws, he has been arrested and released, over and over again.
Now he is finally looking at a stretch behind bars.
A 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant busted at least 10 times in the last few months — and believed to be part of a violent crew of young gang members — was arrested again this week for a knifepoint robbery, sources said Wednesday.
And this time he’s finally getting locked up.
The teen terror, who had been sprung without bail after each of his previous arrests, sobbed as the judge remanded him during his arraignment in Manhattan Family Court Wednesday on yet another first-degree robbery charge.
“The court finds that remand is appropriate and at this time there are no alternatives, and that a return to home at this time would be inappropriate,” Judge Betsey Jean-Jacques said.
The troublesome teen — identified by sources as a member of “Los Diablos de la 42,” a pint-size offshoot of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — had been cuffed in the latest bust on Tuesday, just as The Post was revealing the baby-faced bandit’s shocking exploits.
Those “exploits” are legion, including knifepoint robberies. His latest crime, the one that – finally – resulted in remand instead of a revolving door back onto the street, was another robbery.
He’s accused of pulling a knife on a 34-year-old man at Ninth Avenue and West 35th Street around 7 p.m. Sept. 30, along with a pal, according to the sources.
The teen and his buddy allegedly body-slammed the victim into a pole, flashed a kitchen knife and demanded that he turn over his phone, the sources said.
The man was able to get away unscathed.
Now the “Little Devil” may be looking at iron bars from the wrong side, but that doesn’t resolve the larger issue.
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This kid – who remains unnamed due to his age – is known to have entered the United States with his family in May of 2023. (The names of the politicians who held the offices of President and Vice President at that time are left as an exercise for the reader.) The Little Devil’s family supposedly has an appointment with immigration authorities in November, a year and a half after they entered the country illegally. He and, presumably, his family, are staying in taxpayer-funded “migrant shelters.”
That’s right. New Yorkers are being forced to pay the expenses of criminals who are preying on them.
There is an answer to all this. It’s not education. It’s not more taxpayer dollars to provide more benefits. It’s not expediting processing. The answer lies in closing the border and immediate deportation of any illegal immigrant who commits a crime. If the criminal is a juvenile, the entire family should be deported. We don’t need people like Tren de Aragua and the “Little Devil.” There’s no place for them here. Send them back.
