Venezuelan citizen Rubio Bohorquez, allegedly in the US illegally, sits on the New York City Council. To New York Democrats’ surprise, immigration officials. detained him, and top New York City Democrats are outraged, including Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin said the staffer was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday afternoon when keeping an immigration appointment in Bethpage on Long Island, according to NBC.
He was then locked up in a federal facility on Varick Street in Manhattan.
Menen said the aide, identified as Rubio Bohorquez, had legal authorization to work in America through October.
Bohorquez worked for the city for about a year and has signed an attestation that he had never been arrested, Menen said, according to WNYW-TV.
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Department of Homeland Security officials said something quite different.
Bohorquez, according to DHS, had overstayed his 2017 tourist visa, did not have work authorization, and had an arrest for assault on his record.
Bohorquez, 53, entered the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in 2017 that required him to leave the country by Oct. 22, DHS said.
“On Jan. 12, ICE New York City arrested Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and an employee of New York’s City Council. His criminal history includes an arrest for assault. He had no work authorization,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
Bohorquez “had no legal right to be in the United States,” she added.
“Under Secretary Noem, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States. If you come to our country illegally and break our law, we will find you, and we will arrest you.”
This has outraged Mayor Zohran. Our new normal is to hire illegal aliens with assault records even in positions of power over citizens, and we’d better like it. We will see how it goes, but if DHS is right, he needs to go home.
I was detained by Border Patrol in Arizona near the border in 2018.
I was a government employee working as a scientist for the US Dept of Energy at the time.
…and guess what?
Not a damn thing happened to me, because I was following the law.
Shut the hell up.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) January 13, 2026
Jillian Michaels has alway been a liberal lesbian and wants to know where Zohran and the Democrat Party is going:
Is Mamdani going to destroy New York City? He will be limited in his actual ability to impact direct change – but what will this mayoral term show about the trajectory of the Democrat party? #mamdani #nyc #Leftist pic.twitter.com/MZLiIsGMKH
— Jillian Michaels (@JillianMichaels) January 15, 2026
That foreigners like Mamdani are outraged is humorous. Ship both of these filthy Commies out on the next slow boat to whatever 3rd world hellhole will take them.