NY Dems’ self-serving grandstanding over ICE arrest of illegal migrant council staffer
Local Democrats went into full meltdown Tuesday over the arrest and detainment of a City Council staffer with an outstanding deportation order by ICE — thereby exposing just how far from reality New York’s political world has moved.
Council Speaker Julie Menin expressed “outrage” that ICE arrested Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a council data analyst and Venezuelan national, who’s been in the job for about a year and allegedly possessed “a valid work permit until October.”
Rep. Dan Goldman and other Dem electeds joined Menin at the hastily called City Hall presser to fume and to hurl vitriol at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE officials.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,” tweeted Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Gov. Kathy Hochul jumped on it in her State of the State speech, smugly asking if “an analyst with legal work authorization” is “really one of the baddest of the bad?”
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