Mamdani puts protecting illegal migrants ahead of street safety

In his latest “do anything to shield illegal migrants” move, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is practically handing “deliveristas” a license to maim and kill.

The NYPD last year began citing e-bike sidewalk speeders and scofflaws with criminal summonses, not just traffic citations, precisely to protect pedestrians from this rising urban menace.

Writing traffic tickets for cyclists is a waste of time, Commissioner Jessica Tisch explained, because riders who ignore them face zero consequences.

But the pro-illegal-immigration crowd was furious, because any kind of criminal record could open the door to the feds apprehending and deporting the e-bike scofflaw.

Because all prog causes now blend together, pro-bicycle obsessives howled, too: “In a time of mass deportation,” the smug lefties at Transportation Alternatives cried, the city chose an “agenda of extralegal harassment.”

“Increased criminal enforcement of e-bike riders, where we have a high concentration of undocumented people, is going to lead to more people getting wrongly deported,” quavered Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Greenpoint).

“Wrongly” deported illegal immigrants?

“An immigrant who gets a criminal summons may end up in deportation proceedings,” whined his fellow City Council socialist Tiffany Cabán (D-Astoria).

Huh? To could avoid trouble, they need only obey the law, stop at stop signs and go the right way on city streets.

But enforcing rules for favored constituencies is not Mamdani’s style.

In announcing the end of criminal summonses for e-bike traffic violations, he didn’t mention ICE or deportation, instead offering blather about holding the food apps “accountable” to supposedly confront “the root causes of unsafe e-bike and cycling delivery practices.”

What bull: The “root cause” of dangerous e-bike behavior is the lack of consequences for it.

Expect many more brutal injuries like Post writer Doree Lewak’s, hospitalized by a “deliverista” going the wrong way in 2019.

Our mayor is so obsessed with keeping illegal immigrants safe that he’s increasing the dangers they pose to everyone else.

Congratulations, New Yorkers: You now live in a city that centers its public-safety policies on protecting lawbreakers.