President Donald Trump’s new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, tweeted video Tuesday morning of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting a man in New York City.
A Bronx neighborhood was stunned by an early morning raid by federal immigrant agents — and to learn that a suspected vicious migrant gangbanger was living among them.
ICE has 25 field offices spread out across the U.S. that have reportedly been given "goals" of around 75 illegal immigrant arrests per day.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was in New York City on Tuesday morning, announcing the arrest of an undocumented immigrant facing several charges.
Immigration advocacy groups and officials in the city and in Queens are on edge this week as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have made their way to the five boroughs.
While crime has long been a problem in their neighborhood, Bronx residents said, immigration enforcement actions there are rare.
Heavily armed federal agents swept through the Big Apple early Tuesday for the first deportation raids under President Trump’s crackdown — nabbing violent illegal immigrants including kidnappers
The quota was implemented because President Donald Trump has been disappointed with deportation action so far, the Washington Post reported. Meanwhile, ICE agents arrested an individual in the Bronx Tuesday morning.
Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.
ICE arrests are being carried out across the United States since Donald Trump's inauguration last week. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
"It's not a spectacle," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said of filming ICE raids. "This is our nation's law enforcement."