(NEW YORK, NY) – Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis released the following statement regarding the City of New York’s response to her Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request.

“After 1.5 years and multiple broken promises and delays, I finally received a response to my Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request with the City of New York for migrant crime data and the results are deeply disturbing. It turns out NYC taxpayers paid to house 3,219 arrestees between January 2023 and October 2024 in shelters and luxury hotel rooms at billions of dollars in taxpayer expense.

It is obvious why the city stonewalled and delayed response not once, not twice but three times after my initial request by letter in October 2023 and by FOIL in January 2024. Of the more than 16,000 crimes that occurred in or near migrant shelters, more than 11,000 of them were for one of the seven major felony offenses including murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, or grand larceny of an automobile. Simply put, Democrats from Joe Biden to Governor Hochul to Mayor Adams made New Yorkers less safe and forced taxpayers to foot the bill for increased crime and deteriorated quality of life after repeatedly telling us these criminal migrants were innocent asylum seekers who were all vetted.”