Queens locals beg federal immigration authorities to help end lawlessness along Roosevelt Avenue corridor

Queens locals fed up with the conditions along Roosevelt Avenue are hoping the new Trump administration will help “clean up” up the area besieged by crime they say has been committed by homeless migrants.A group of residents, including ex-Democratic state Sen.

Hiram Monserrate, penned a letter Tuesday to President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, requesting federal assistance after claiming state and local leaders weren’t doing enough to improve safety.“The situation here in Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst is outrageous,” read the letter to Homan, who’s been tasked by Trump to oversee a mass deportation operation.

“Over the past seven months our community has risen up to confront a wave of lawlessness in our community that landed here about a year and a half ago.”The Roosevelt Avenue corridor has faced homelessness and ongoing lawlessness by dozens of migrants, including drug dealing, harassment and theft, as well as lesser crimes like drinking in the open, littering and public urination, locals said during a Tuesday press conference.There have been instances of assault and also a series of brothels that have destroyed residents’ sense of safety and their quality of life, community leaders added.The problems have long plagued the corridor and surrounding areas, which has been chronicled in The Post.One barber shop even closed down because 50 homeless people set up in front of the storefront, making it impossible for the business to survive.“They couldn’t compete with the vagrants because the barbers would have 10-20 vagrants using drugs and drinking right here,” Monserrate said of Los Primos Barber Shop where the press conference took place in front of.“This should not be happening anywhere in America, much less Queens County,” he added.A tiny park in Corona, The American Triangle, is also blocked off, community advocates pointed out.“Take a guess why it’s barricaded? Because the vagrants were using it as their home and bathro...