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.
While crime has long been a problem in their neighborhood, Bronx residents said, immigration enforcement actions there are rare.
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.
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."
In a display of force aimed at increasing arrests and generating publicity, the administration targeted the nation’s largest city, where sanctuary policies limit cooperation with ICE.
ICE agents made over 20 arrests on Tuesday in parts of Manhattan and the Bronx – including a suspected gang leader – as President Donald Trump's mass deportation project continues to ramp up.
Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.