For the past three months, Mayor Eric Adams, along with Kaz Daughtry, one of his remaining toadies at the NYPD, has been celebrating what they refer to as "Operation Restore Roosevelt," an effort to crack down on quality-of-life offenses on a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Corona that has seen an influx of immigrants from South and Central America over the past two years.
The "operation" has focused on sex work and unlicensed vending, offenses that for years immigrant rights advocates have tried to ensure are not subject to criminal arrests, given that those arrests have dire immigration consequences, including possible detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and eventual deportation.