User Reviews

Solid episode, as usual. I like the side plot storylines. Also, I love Esai Morales. I wish they would have created a recurring role for him. He's a highly underrated actor in my opinion.

The reason why I'm writing this review is to really say Nikki Reagan is the most annoying character on every episode. She was in top form this episode! The smirky know-it-all spoiled bratty privilege face annoys the F out of me every episode. I'm glad the character / or actor went to college and written out so I don't have to see her dumb face every Friday. She really adds no value on this show beside annoying the hell out of me.

The current administration and its policies toward immigrants makes this particular Blue Bloods episode truly relevant now. Such policies as we see here would get you a gold star with ICE.

Judy Reyes, tenant organizer and general rabblerouser is arrested by ICE and awaiting deportation. Turns out she never knew that her mother was really her aunt and she came to this country undeclared. She finds a couple of unexpected allies in Bridget Moynahan and Steven Schirippa in her fight to stay in the USA.

Will Estes and Vanessa Ray get involved with some Romany folks who have a fortune telling business that would call a racket. We learn that Eddie Janko is a believer in psychics.

And there's a real rift in policy between the US Marshals and the NYPD over immigration in general. Mike Pniewski is a guy who is probably going far in the current administration with their attitudes toward folks with a bit more pigmentation in their skin. The precinct captain in the area where they plan to raid is Esai Morales and he's rightly concerned about community relations.

Years ago I knew a young man who was living on the streets in Manhattan who had a problem something like what Reyes did. His parents were Puerto Rican and were traveling in Canada where he was born in Saskatchewan. They came across the border and didn't declare him. Social services took him and his sister away and they were raised in Group Homes. But Roy Gomez went out and lived on the streets.

I helped get his citizenship recognized, not that it mattered in the end as he died of AIDS in 1996. Today ICE would send him back to Canada where he knew absolutely no one. I think about that when I see this story from Blue Bloods and the current heartless policies being enforced.

This review is for you Roy.