Malliotakis Receives Shocking Migrant Crime Data, Slams NYC For FOIL Delay
Editor’s note: From the police department’s statement, 16,371 crimes of every degree were committed within 1,000 feet of a migrant shelter, with 1,049 crimes of all types committed within the shelters themselves. Overall in that area, out of the people who were arrested for the crimes, 3,219 listed a migrant shelter as their legal address. See the photos below, and the pdf in the link for more details. The second image is a list of each of the types of crime committed and the number of that type of crime (which is from the total numbers in the first image). Rep. Malliotakis recently discussed the promised migrant shelter closures, which included the shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in her district in Brooklyn.
(NEW YORK, NY) – Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis released the following statement regarding the City of New York’s response to her Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request.
“After 1.5 years and multiple broken promises and delays, I finally received a response to my Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request with the City of New York for migrant crime data and the results are deeply disturbing. It turns out NYC taxpayers paid to house 3,219 arrestees between January 2023 and October 2024 in shelters and luxury hotel rooms at billions of dollars in taxpayer expense.
It is obvious why the city stonewalled and delayed response not once, not twice but three times after my initial request by letter in October 2023 and by FOIL in January 2024. Of the more than 16,000 crimes that occurred in or near migrant shelters, more than 11,000 of them were for one of the seven major felony offenses including murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, or grand larceny of an automobile. Simply put, Democrats from Joe Biden to Governor Hochul to Mayor Adams made New Yorkers less safe and forced taxpayers to foot the bill for increased crime and deteriorated quality of life after repeatedly telling us these criminal migrants were innocent asylum seekers who were all vetted.”
READ NYC’S RESPONSE TO THE FOIL REQUEST HERE
On October 2, 2023, Malliotakis and a bipartisan group of local elected officials sent a letter to then NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban requesting information relating to migrant crime in New York City. Having received no response, on January 8, 2024, Malliotakis’ office submitted a FOIL Request to obtain the desired information.
Banner Image: Migrants on a boat. Image Credit – Manoj Poosam
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis was sworn in on January 3, 2021 to represent Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis was elected to the New York State Assembly on November 2, 2010, defeating a two-term incumbent. In the Assembly, she served as Minority Whip and the ranking minority member of the Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees. For five terms, Congresswoman Malliotakis fought to restore ethics in Albany, expand transit service in her district, improve programs for senior citizens, reform education and improve New York’s economic climate by reducing the tax burden on small businesses and residents. A cornerstone of her tenure was helping her community recover and rebuild following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In addition to advocating for these same issues in Washington, Congresswoman Malliotakis is acutely focused on securing New York’s fair share of federal mass transit funding, which would go towards expanding transportation services and easing traffic congestion, while also championing public safety by supporting our nation’s law enforcement officers. Congresswoman Malliotakis is the daughter of immigrants, her father from Greece and her mother a Cuban exile of the Castro dictatorship. She is currently the only Republican member representing New York City in Congress, representing a district spanning the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island. She is a passionate advocate for animal rights and the strengthening of animal cruelty laws, and in her spare time, enjoys spending time with her chihuahua, Peanut.