Worried migrants flee NYC shelters as Trump ICE raids loom: It is better to leave before

They’re getting out of Dodge.Migrants shacked up at Big Apple shelters are jittery over promised ICE raids on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday — and many are ditching their tax-funded digs to duck deportation.“It is better to leave before,” Venezuelan migrant Kervin Nava, 31, said outside a Long Island City shelter Sunday.“I am making arrangements, somewhere else.” One Manhattan migrant who asked to be identified only as Rafael said the fear has gripped his shelter.“It’s in God’s hands, but there are people who have started leaving the hotels because they’re scared,” he told The Post.

“When ICE came a few weeks ago they had an arrest warrant for someone who lived here.“Nothing they could do.”Other migrants said they were just angry at their suddenly dim prospects.Trump has long promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants in the US, and has designated Tom Homan, his new tough-as-nails border czar, to start making it happen as soon as he’s in office.Homan, who has identified immigration asylum cities like Chicago and New York as the first priorities, told Fox News Sunday that he’s “reconsidering” when and how to pull the trigger after some details of the planned raids were leaked to the press over the past week.“It’s going to be a big raid all across the country,” he told Fox on Friday.

“Chicago is just one of many places.We’ve got 24 [ICE] field offices across the country.

On Tuesday, ICE is finally going to go out and do their job.We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens.

“That’s what’s going to happen.”Delayed or not, Homan assured the raids are coming — and it has migrants shaking in their boots.“Some people think they will come in buses and load people up from the shelters, take them to the airport,” migrant Limame Gueye, 29, told The Post.Colombian national Kevin Llena said he’s been waiting one year at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown wa...