He says the neighborhood has reeked of marijuana lately, and while crime may be down by just over 25 percent in Sunset Park, it doesn’t feel that way. Plus, he thinks that migrants are the ones who’ve been stealing strollers outside a daycare near his office.
“The sad thing is I think they sell them,” he says.
It’s enough to make Cardona, a lifelong Democrat, consider voting red for the first time in his life for the upcoming city council election, which has become a de facto referendum on the migrant crisis.
“I’m thinking about flipping,” he says. “People are just getting away with too much.”
Many other residents of Sunset Park, a majority immigrant community, have already taken the leap. Throughout the 2010s, Republican candidates for governor struggled to break 15 percent of the vote in the district. Then, in 2022, nearly a quarter of voters here went for Lee Zeldin, a Republican candidate promising to restore law and order. The immigration issue, along with concerns about education and crime, has already pushed many Asian Americans in the neighborhood toward voting Republican.
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