Federal ICE brokers launched raids in New York Metropolis early Tuesday as a part of President Trump’s unlawful immigration crackdown, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated.
The brokers hit at the least three places within the Bronx and took at the least two individuals into custody, sources stated.
“Arresting some criminal aliens this morning in NYC – thank you to the brave officers involved,” Noem wrote on X at about 6 a.m. Tuesday morning with pics of Immigration and Customized Enforcement brokers making ready for the operation.
The Homeland Safety Secretary thanked a number of federal businesses in her posts, in addition to the NYPD’s Particular Operations Division.
A police supply stated some NYPD members are a part of the Homeland Safety Investigations Job Pressure, which seems for these concerned in legal instances. Doing so is just not a violation of NYPD coverage of not getting concerned in apprehending somebody merely right here illegally.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch dispatched a memo to all officers on Jan. 18, reminding them they’ll’t interact or help with immigration enforcement or enable NYPD sources for use for that objective if there aren’t any legal allegations concerned.
Noem put out a video of ICE brokers taking at the least one individual into custody within the Bronx, who the secretary known as “a dirtbag.”
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem joins ICE brokers as they hunt for unlawful immigrants in New York Metropolis. (Dept. of Homeland Safety)
President Trump has directed ICE brokers to first zero in on migrants and unlawful aliens who’ve been accused of committing crimes within the U.S.
The company hasn’t given out any particulars in regards to the detentions however have every so often put out footage of the extra infamous legal suspects.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York division and New York area workplace for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives confirmed on X Tuesday they had been working with ICE and different federal regulation enforcement companions on “immigration enforcement efforts” in New York Metropolis, together with the raids within the Bronx.
Related raids have been performed in Chicago, Newark and Maryland. Smaller scale ICE investigations happened in New York Metropolis final week, however weren’t publicized by federal businesses.
On Monday, ICE brokers made 1,179 arrests throughout the nation and detained 853 immigrants, the company stated.
Present ICE enforcement operations underneath Trump are much like these through the Biden administration with one obtrusive distinction: Below Trump, officers can now arrest individuals with out authorized standing in the event that they run throughout them whereas on the lookout for migrants focused for removing.
Below Joe Biden, such “collateral arrests” had been banned.
Because the detentions proceed, ICE received’t have the ability to arrest undocumented New Yorkers going through legal instances in state courthouses with out a warrant, native courtroom officers stated.
Initially Printed: January 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM EST
