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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,562 - NYC largely keeps NYPD from breaking up migrant youth gang in shelter system
Description: The Big Apple’s self-imposed “sanctuary city” status is handcuffing the NYPD from clamping down on a violent crew of young Tren de Aragua members that is terrorizing Manhattan, sources tell The Post.
Cops already grappling with the Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws also have to contend with the immigrant-friendly designation that largely bars police from city-funded migrant shelters that have become a hotbed for gang activity, the sources said.
“It’s a problem,” one law enforcement source said. “We’re essentially allowing a criminal enterprise now involving minors t...