President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, the New York governor who boasted on the X show about improving subway safety hours after an illegal immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping passenger on the F train Blamed Kathy Hochul.
“Governor Hochul, I'm sorry. There's nothing you can say to make this right in New York,” Hochul said. “Fox & Friends” Monday morning He accused Hochul of supporting the sanctuary law and allowing “thousands of illegal immigrants into the state.”
Hochul's office touted a drop in crime across the subway in the hours after the fire broke out.
“In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who ride them every day,” Hochul said. X I wrote this on Sunday afternoon. There are also photos of her on transit, alongside law enforcement and passengers.
“Since its introduction, [New York National Guard] support [the NYPD] and [MTA] As a result of safety efforts and the installation of cameras in every subway car, crime has decreased and ridership has increased. ”
Sebastián Zapeta Khalil, 33, a Guatemalan immigrant, set a sleeping subway passenger on fire Sunday on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue station, burning her to death. He was arrested on suspicion of observing.
“This is another example of an illegal alien killing an American citizen. Because of the current administration's policies in sanctuary jurisdictions and lax immigration enforcement, we have a historic number of criminal aliens walking our streets. Things like this are almost daily occurrences now,” said Homan, who recently met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to discuss immigration. problem.
Zapeta illegally sneaked into the county after being deported in 2018 and later stayed in a shelter in New York City, multiple sources confirmed to The Post on Monday.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the attack “one of the most despicable crimes one person can commit.”
“As the train entered the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was sitting on the edge of the subway car, and used what appeared to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing, causing it to completely burn out.” It swallowed me up in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a news conference.
