Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter Interview

Mendte in the Morning sent Natalie Migliore out on the street to talk to the people of NYC about how safe they feel with crime reportedly up and the cities immigration policies.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliore.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
A Border Patrol agent is shot in the face in
a New York City park and that raises so many
questions about crime and immigration, questions that Natalie Migliori asked
to New Yorkers in her Beat on the Street Natalie, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good morning, Larry Well. These questions on immigration and safety
all come as an off duty Border Patrol agent was
shot during a robbery in Manhattan's Fort Washington Park on
Saturday night. Police sources say one of the suspects, a
twenty one year old Dominican national, was arrested at least
four times and released each time despite having a deportation order.

(00:50):
This morning actually was the first many New Yorkers were
hearing of the incident, So it had me asking, what
do they think.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Here's the problem with that. All of that is they say,
I can say that you shot somebody before, where's the proof.
Isn't that what they've been doing this entire time? They
have yet to prove criminals are being deported. But if
they can find a criminal, great, That's not what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I think it's a sad, horrible situation. Am I going
to blame every migrant who comes to know? But you
put people in a situation where they're being rounded up
right now, they're scared, they don't have a way. This
does not at all say what he did was right.
There was terrible, horrible. I do believe in law and
order and everybody being able to live safely in the community.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
That's wrong he did that. I would have locked them
up and sent him back to his country.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, police say at least two suspects ambush the forty
year old agent and his female companion along the Hudson River,
with one allegedly shooting him in the faith, prompting him
to shoot back. One was injured and actually stumbled into
an hospital leader that night. They are both expected to
be okay, But it begs the question do people in

(01:56):
the city ever feel in danger.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Immigrants now from homeless Sometimes it's different, especially because I
said on a grand jury, and I can tell you
that you go up to one twenty fifth Street through
these horrible gangs, they're not immigrant gangs, they're cities in America.
I sat on one case doublehamicide. Why I was fourteen
years old, not an immigrant. So we have crime. Now,
I feel safe in the city. I've never had an
issue in this city.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
It's just it's a sad situation and it's not safe,
and I have teenage girls, and I don't feel safe
even here.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
But that New York are not necessarily blaming immigrants, just
saying the situation in the city isn't always a safe feeling.
So where do we go from here, especially when it
comes to the city's immigration policy.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I want this to be a safe haven for people,
but I think there's no plan and right now, unfortunately,
I think it's not serving people who who are coming
in needing refuge the asylum seekers. So I just think
we need better leadership.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't have a problem with the city's immigration I
have a problem with the federal government's immigration policy. Their
policy is based to deport anybody of brown color, no
just cause, no no courts, no nothing, just do whatever
they want. It's like Nazi Germany. It's the ballots. You
got a structuffing between allowing people in that have refugee
status or are leaving for other reasons, and then the
increasing blood that you may.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
See on the street. Yeah, but people feel strongly that
the Trump administration is handling immigration far differently than New
York City itself and New York States, and each person
seems to have a different concern. One New Yorker says
some immigrants are taking advantage of this system, while another says,
there just seems to be a better way of processing

(03:36):
people at the border.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
And let the ones that's live here like me, that
live in America get our resources back to us. We
work hard and we need it. We need to focus
on us in America.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Perhaps we needed to have some sort of a plan
at the border on how we bring in people, because
we can't just have open borders that with so many
people that we don't even know what to do and
they flood the society. We can't even help them, right
and help ourselves. But just a plain no and deporting everyone.
That's not a plan to me either. But I'm not
for this current administration.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, Larry, sort of the narrative throughout the morning, you know,
just people who want to handle immigration in a humane
way but want to ensure that communities are safe. Where's
the balance, you know?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, I get it, and it's hard not to make
it political, but people do get what they vote for,
and it seems like that's the case in New York
State and New York City. You'd think that sometimes people
would rethink it. That last woman you had was really
telling where she doesn't agree at all what's going on,
but she doesn't like Donald Trump, you know, and so

(04:43):
you have these conflicting feelings that are now going to
cause you to have a continuing problem.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Right mostly how it's handled, time will tell. There's a
lot more there's a lot more side to the story,
and we'll also see how this shooting plays out. That's
what all started this story this morning.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's not working. The sanctuary city
things not working, the soft on crime is not working.
It's why we have this problem. Natalie Migliori was great.
Natalie be back tomorrow morning at age fifty.