NYT Says We Should Keep Criminal Aliens Here Because Deporting Them Makes Communities ‘Less Safe’
In the latest episode of legacy-media mental gymnastics, The New York Times argues that deporting criminal aliens somehow makes American communities less safe.
The article, written by Tim Arango, Hamed Aleaziz, and Miriam Jordan, first suggested that deporting criminal aliens is problematic because they might return to the United States “and commit more crimes.”
Of course, that hypothetical assumes that the migrant could get back in, which would be a lot harder now that President Donald Trump has effectively shut down the southern border. The theory that the criminal migrant will return and “commit more crimes” only holds water if you plan on reopening the border — which may be what Democrats do if they win in 2028.
Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley of Arapahoe County, Colorado, told the Times that he was prosecuting a case involving a migrant who allegedly pistol-whipped a victim. The migrant, Yerbis Manuel Garcia-Quintero, allegedly “sold gold and lent money to other immigrants, and used violence to collect debts,” according to the Times. One of those beatings was caught on video and left the victim, Carlos Perez, bloodied and battered.
Despite being charged with several felonies, Garcia-Quintero posted bail and was set free, because nothing says “keeping communities safe” like giving an alleged violent alien a get-out-of-jail-for-the-right-price card.
Garcia-Quintero later failed to show up to court, however, because he was deported. This, somehow, is the tragedy according to the Times. Not that a foreign national came to this country to peddle Third World level lawlessness, nor that the same alien was then let out on bond despite the allegations stacked against him.
Perez “fears for both the safety of his relatives in Venezuela and his wife and 1-year-old daughter, who he worries could be harmed by an associate of Mr. Garcia-Quintero’s in Colorado,” as described by the Times.
“It would be better if he were in prison because my family is in Venezuela, and that’s a lawless country,” Perez told the Times.
America is under no moral obligation to warehouse violent offenders from abroad. And if Garcia-Quintero posed such a grave risk — as the Times, Perez, and prosecutor believe — maybe he shouldn’t have been let out on bond. As ICE’s Tom Homan pointed out, local prosecutors can work with ICE when it comes to taking custody of a defendant who is in immigration detention. But, if the defendant has been let out on bond awaiting trial, Homan isn’t taking any chances with public safety.
“If somebody wants to put him on bond, and he’s a significant public safety threat, we’re picking him up,” Homan said, according to the Times. “If they want to take him back into custody, they can, but we’re not going to allow him to walk the street.”
In other words, ICE does the job that locals fail to do — and the Times is upset about it.
The Times goes on to reference several other accounts of ICE arresting criminal aliens at courthouses, describing how bystanders were angry.
One Massachusetts district attorney told the Times that ICE’s actions were, as described by The Times, “making the community less safe and making it more difficult to reduce crime.”
But the only thing making communities less safe is allowing violent alien perpetrators back out into the street. In January the Department of Justice announced that federal law enforcement had taken into custody a “Mexican citizen” who had plead “guilty to assault charges” but was nonetheless set free by the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office in New York.
More shocking was the report from the New York Post’s Jennie Taer that explained how an illegal migrant “accused of raping a pre-teen child” was allowed to “walk free on bail.” Roughly two months later, ICE officers located and arrested 28-year-old Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo. And who could forget when New York City released several alien suspects on bail despite their allegedly beating police officers in Times Square?
At the end of the day, The Times is simply repackaging law enforcement action as a moral crisis. Framing ICE as the antagonist, violent offenders as victims, and the enforcement of immigration law as a threat to justice isn’t journalism; it’s narrative management.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
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