‘Criminal Illegal’ Migrant Shot by ICE has Rap Sheet of Alarming Crimes

NYPost.com:

• The Dominican Republic native shot by ICE agents in The Bronx was a migrant with an alarming rap sheet — who apparently benefited from New York’s lax bail and sanctuary laws, allowing him to remain on the streets, according to sources and court records. Oscar Belgal, 28, is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights a year later, allegedly sold dangerous drugs within months of his conviction in 2025 and was even allegedly connected to a violent street gang.
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• None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to. “I don’t consider him a New Yorker,” fumed Bronx mom Migdalia Martinez, whose 12-year-old son Jacob Freytas was killed in gangland crossfire while riding his bike in July.
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• “The only thing I do consider him as is trash, nothing else but trash. And I don’t consider New York, my home, as trash,” she told The Post Friday. Asked if Mamdani was wrong to call Belgal a New Yorker, Martinez said: “The mayor is wrong in many ways — that’s definitely one.”

Yeah, another 'innocent, outstanding citizen' here with a long rap sheet, taking advantage of woke Democrat politicians who have done nothing but enable him for years and released him from prison time and time again so he can continue to commit more crimes. Normally, being a gangbanger, robbing people at gunpoint and selling drugs like Fentanyl on the street would warrant you plenty of time in prison and rightly so. But not in New York state, a liberal cesspool run by lunatic Lefties and their woke policies who ignore crime and coddle criminals at the expense of the lives of innocent civilians just trying to go about their day and make it home safe. And now the repeated felon gets shot by ICE and you're supposed to be all up in arms about it...unless you're a bigot of course.

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U.S. Homicides Drop 21% in 2025, Lowest Rate Since 1900

CBS.com:

Murders plummeted more than 20% in 2025 from the year before, the single-largest one-year drop on record — and it might be the lowest murder rate in the U.S. since 1900, a study released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice found. 

 

The annual crime trends report analyzed data from 40 large cities across the United States for 13 different crime types, including murder, carjacking, theft and drug offenses. 

 

Alongside homicides, which dropped 21% from 2024, carjackings have declined 61% since 2023, while shoplifting is down 10% since 2024. In general, the overall crime rate declined, with violent crimes at or below levels seen in 2019, the analysis found — drug offenses were the only category that rose during this period, while sexual assault remained even.

Considering all the talk now going on about the Epstein files, Greenland, Jack Smith, ICE and what-have-you, with the 2026 midterms approaching, the Trump administration should be far more vocal about the case that its crime policies have helped make America safer. After all, the numbers are hard to ignore: murders fell 21% last year in 35 major U.S. cities (the largest one-year drop ever and likely the lowest rate since 1900), while 11 of 13 major crime categories declined in 2025, with robberies and gun assaults down more than 20%, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. Of course, liberals will note that violent crime was already falling late in Biden’s term, questioning how much credit Trump deserves, but politics is about clarity, not academic debates over causation. Trump campaigned as a law-and-order president, and his administration has emphasized a “whole-of-government” approach that includes supporting law enforcement, cracking down on repeat offenders, deploying the National Guard in overwhelmed cities, and deporting criminal illegal aliens. Whether these policies sparked or sustained the decline, Republicans should make a simple argument to voters: America is safer, the COVID-era crime wave is reversing, and keeping that momentum requires staying the course in 2026.

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