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An illegal alien with suspected ties to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua robbed one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors, New York police say.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, police said, Brandon Simosa robbed Bragg’s employee, a 38-year-old woman, in her apartment building on 44th Street, the New York Post first reported.
Simosa, 25, fled with the woman’s smartphone and bank cards after she discovered him as he “performed a lewd act” in a hallway, WABC-TV/Channel 7 Eyewitness News reported.
Bragg, a Democrat, is probably best known for his successful, high-profile prosecution of former President Donald Trump, now the president-elect, for falsifying business records before and after the 2016 election.
Simosa illegally crossed the southern border into Eagle Pass, Texas, in October 2023, the Post reported.
Police tracked the stolen phone to find and arrest Simosa on Tuesday night outside a hotel being used as a migrant shelter in Midtown Manhattan. He was using drugs and had stolen items with him when police located him, according to Eyewitness News.
Charges against Simosa include sexually motivated robbery, grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property, the Post reported.
Cameras caught Simosa smirking Wednesday as authorities led him out of the New York Police Department’s Midtown South Precinct.
“This utterly unrepentant, smirking young thug is just one of thousands allowed in under the Biden administration’s open border and then encouraged to come to New York City by its blank checks for housing, income, health care, education, and other services Americans don’t get for free,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told The Daily Signal.
Over 10 million illegal aliens have crossed the border into the U.S. during the Biden-Harris administration, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has said that over 223,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the Big Apple and “sought city services” since the spring of 2022.
“While living off the taxpayer, [illegal aliens] can rob and assault with little fear of timely prosecution, and they are usually let out on cashless bail,” Hankinson said.
Shortly after taking office at the beginning of 2022, Bragg, a Democrat, directed his prosecutors in a memo to seek jail time only in “very serious cases.”
After receiving pushback from New Yorkers, Bragg revised his direction, telling prosecutors: “You were hired for your keen judgment, and I want you to use that judgment.”
Heritage Foundation legal fellows Cully Stimson and Zack Smith, authors of the book “Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities,” have accused Bragg of furthering “pro-criminal, anti-victim policies.”
Bragg’s office did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
The district attorney in Georgia “who took the death penalty off the table for Laken Riley’s killer—another Tren de Aragua associate from Venezuela—was as woke as Alvin Bragg,” Hankinson said.
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was found dead Feb. 22 near a running trail in Athens, Georgia. Authorities said she died of blunt force trauma to the head and suffocation.
A Georgia judge on Wednesday found illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, guilty on all 10 counts in Riley’s bludgeoning death. Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard sentenced Ibarra, who had waived his right to a jury trial, to life in prison without parole.
Athens-Clarke District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, a Democrat, appointed a special prosecutor to take on the Riley case but said her office wouldn’t seek the death penalty when prosecuting criminals.
In the Nov. 5 election Republican challenger Kalki Yalamanchili defeated Gonzalez by 60% to 40%, the Post reported.
Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of “The Daily Signal Podcast” and “Problematic Women.”
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Virginia Allen
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the latest in a long line of disgraceful examples of why wokeism, soft-on-crime policies such as cashless bail, open borders and sanctuary cities and states DON’T WORK! as if we needed another one. Will the people who insist on voting for this garbage wake up now and stop supporting these policies?
This Thug will be another guest to our nation! These woke prosecutors are doing nobody any good but the thugs they protect! This truth in itself makes them no better than the criminals whose wrists they slapped in these major crimes they committed! Lincoln Riley’s only justice could only be served with the death sentence! But we the people of the United States will have to pay the bill for this and other criminals for as long as they live! This would be thug who robbed this woman who sexually exposed himself is another prime example of why none of these illegals should’ve ever been allowed in to this nation, and in my opinion, all the blood shed, all of the anger! All of it is on the hand’s of the Biden Crime family and its followers!
What is wrong with these people, that they let these savages run wild through our communities, live on taxpayers’ “generosity”, and commit crimes of unimaginable viciousness? What will it take for us citizens to rise up and start wielding our own form of justice? That would be a very dangerous America to live in, but unless this nonsense comes to a full stop, it won’t take much for people to pick up their own weapons and…
Yeah, death penalty for these subhumans. I’m sick of hearing these stories and seeing the bad guys get away with it. Jail every last one of them or ship them out and make sure they’ll never be able to cross the border again.
Why are we paying to keep Laken Riley’s killer alive? Free food, medical care, tv, and all the things Laken will not be able to have! And how many appeals will he be allowed at taxpayer expense?
Why not seek the death penalty for this piece of garbage. Now we’re going to have to feed and house this murderer of an innocent victim. This is not justice.
Hate to sound so callous but I am hoping that prison justice will eliminate any of these illegals (when they are finally convicted and sentenced) from becoming living “lifers”.
He’s smiling because he know the case will be dropped and he will be back out on the streets if not already on no cash bail, welcome to Hochul’s NYC
Criminal illegals usually don’t target those higher ups because if they did, maybe those responsible for making a mockery of the justice system would actually relate to ordinary victims and do something.
Why did they bother to arrest this perp? If he robbed anybody in the city EXCEPT somebody in Bragg’s office, police wouldn’t have even bothered to look for him. Two tiered justice for sure.
And perhaps there is a prison guard who would love to “erase” the punks smile! This nation once had a strong criminal justice system. This hasn’t been the case for at least 3 decades or more. I watch the neighbor state’s “news” as it’s all I can get living close to their border (can’t afford cable). Night after night “laughable” sentences are preferred on violent thugs, many of whom are repeat offenders. Just last week a creep who had a criminal history going back years; sentenced, released, sentenced released etc. was arrested again. A “liberal” judge who passed a sentence of 10 years on a woman who’d already been busted for drunk driving. This time she managed to kill a mom on her way to work. Over and over even the most horrific sadistic murderers are given sentences that are unimaginably insulting to the victims. One event that changed my life and direction forever was Waco, Texas 1994. American citizens vilified for 51 days. Attacked by the military, law enforcement, ATF and only God knows how many others. Bad mouthed nightly by the “media” who cheered on the carnage for the full 51 days. Ultimately men, women and children were ultimately burned and CS gassed to their deaths. The sitting “president” Wm. Jefferson Clinton presiding. He was impeached for messing with an intern. Of course the “media” made a big deal from it and carefully Waco wasn’t mentioned again. Question to ponder: who says in the future another “president” wouldn’t attack a small community and eliminate it.
Add that to the almost maniacal panic in especially democrat states to disarm Americans…think about it. A weak justice system, jail sentences that are a slap on the hand…with a few exceptions…and in my state of Colorado a democrat “governor” determined to pile more and more restrictions on law abiding gun owners as HE has welcomed illegals to housesit downtown Denver along with armed gangs who ran people out of their homes with just a few things they could grab. Then think of Bush Sr.’s presidential acceptance speech when he said; “We must usher in the New World Order.” None of this insanity is random. We will lose our nation and it seems Trump might just be the last one to galvanize more folks to join the fight.
Once upon a time in a world far away, China was free, Cuba was free, Korea wasn’t split in half. Russia was relatively free and on and on. Our nation is…or was…a nation unlike any in the history of the world. A Constitutional Republic designed by men who’d escaped oppression and determined to never allow this new nation to degenerate. We as a nation have corporately forgotten the One Who gave them their task. These were by and large, men of faith who believed in God…yes some were Deists…but look up the meaning. Our Documents clearly express it. Our laws once expressed it. We’ve had it so good for so long that we’ve perhaps corporately become immune to the fact we could lose it all. I know I am and not surprised that many like myself are looking at a man, Donald Trump, to help us put “Humpty Dumpty” back together again. But even the Donald can’t move mountains by himself. When a group of individuals begin to “law” us out of our personal protection, deliberately weaken our justice system, our freedom of speech, that those opposing our Constitutional protections get their way, and no one hears the tree fall… America the once and great Constitutional Republic is silent.
I fear for the country my uncle and brother fought for, the country that tho’ my dad was classified 4F because of his health, still designed and built war planes and those men who fought from WW1 to Afghanistan and beyond and never came home, school mates who fought and died in Viet Nam and a good friend who was blown up by a land mine…has their legacy been forgotten? Sorry if some think I’m sounding like Chicken Little…but maybe our hold on our America is coming to an end…?
Cut off his junk!
And we are so shocked and surprised! Open borders are a welcome wagon for criminals, mentally ill people, human traffickers, fentanyl dealers and rapists! The d’s have literally created a nightmare for regular people to deal with. Odd how these criminal migrants gravitate to the liberal places with restrictive guns laws where they won’t get shot by angry homeowners. Like here. A few trickle in, but don’t stay. We have almost no social services or shelters and most households are armed.
Here is how it works: You decide to be a good person and put up a bird feeder on your porch. Couple weeks later, there is bird poop all over your porch. The birds make a lot of noise and eat a LOT of birdseed. What to do, what to do?
It’s simple: TAKE DOWN THE BIRD FEEDER.
I wonder if this guy will be released on cashless bail.
We’ll have to wait and see how this illegal is handled. We can only hope and pray that justice is served. If it’s not adequate for the crime at hand then these prosecutors get what they deserve. For the rest of us who have to deal with this problem, we will have to start taking matters into our own hands. Neighborhoods will have to keep an eye on each other’s people and property. Neighborhood watch programs and teams of people who are willing to take action when needed will be the call of day. We can only hope that President Trump will straighten this out in a hurry, if he can.
Place them in General population, see the Pedos GO
Sadly, this is the absolute only thing that will help these hard heads understand. Hate to wish this on people, but, this will be a big piece of the solution.
Too bad this gang-banger-turd didn’t butt-rape Bragg himself! This is what you get when you fabricate fake charges to go after your political enemies like Trump and totally ignore the very real problems and threats right under your fat nose! I’m glad that this mess we find ourselves in is finally starting to threaten these idiots where they live!
Would have been more appropriate if it was Bragg himself, but this is nearly as just.
NYC seems to be the center for evil and depravity….led by Alvin Bragg himself! We need to find a way to go into that once-great city and clear out the evil, disgusting illegals and send them back to whence they came!!! I hope Bondi takes away all national funds to these corrupt, disgusting blue cities and puts the mayors in prison if they try to block this action.