NYC minorities cheer ICE deportations of criminal illegal immigrants in their communities

Residents of minority communities in New York City are cheering federal agents as they undertake the widespread deportation plans of criminal illegal immigrants launched after the swearing-in of President Donald Trump. 

In the Bronx, where among those arrested was 25-year-old Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, an alleged ringleader of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, one resident who lives in a complex near where Zambrano-Pacheco was arrested told the New York Post, "Oh thank God they got him."

80-year-old Evelyn Brown, a Bronx resident from Jamaica who voted for Trump, said, "Get them the hell off the street! Get them the hell out of the street so people don’t have to walk in fear. Take the damn bad ones away!"

One resident in Manhattan’s Washington Heights said, "Too many people came over the border at once, and now it has to be a whole operation." He added, "I don’t want dangerous people on the street, especially if we’re paying for it. People getting hurt on the street. Why should they get a pass? But some of them are families. I don’t want to see them separated or hurt back home. It’s all a mess."

41-year-old Jason Rodriguez, whose family came to the US from the Dominican Republic in the 1960s and now works as a forklift driver and security camera installer, said, "Honestly, it’s good to get Tren de Aragua off the streets because they’re dangerous. Trump should deport the criminals. Their jails in their own countries are a lot worse than here. They don’t care about being locked up here, so they should be deported." He added that, however, "there are a lot of undocumented, hardworking people busting their ass doing 14- and 16-hour days to support their families. They’re doing it right. They’re contributing to society, unlike the criminals."

52-year-old Damso Vargas, an electrical engineer who moved to the US from the Dominican Republic in 2001 and has since become a US citizen, said, "If you come to this country, you need to show respect and work hard. You don’t come here to do gang bullsh*t. If you come to my country, I’d expect you to do the right thing."

"I remember in 2010, you could walk around Roosevelt Avenue and enjoy yourself, but now I’m scared to walk around because there are a lot of newly-arrived migrant criminals," he added.

Dolphin Chung, a 57-year-old Peruvian green card holder, said, "The foreign criminals are dangerous, so it’s good to get rid of them. We don’t want the foreign gangs here. But there are a lot of people around here who don’t have papers but work very hard. They work from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m., seven days a week."