New DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Joins ICE Arrests In NYC
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The president’s promised mass deportation efforts continue to gain steam.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s stepped-up arrests continued Tuesday, with newly sworn-in Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem personally taking part in an operation targeting New York City.
The New York operation Tuesday morning was part of a broader pattern of highly publicized ICE arrests starting last week targeting “sanctuary cities” that have passed local policies limiting cooperation with federal deportation efforts. White House border czar Tom Homan has repeatedly said that Donald Trump’s administration will counter sanctuary policies with more aggressive at-large arrests.
“Here in New York City this morning we are getting the dirtbags off these streets,” Noem said while wearing a vest reading “Police” and “ICE,” in a video posted to X.
Tuesday’s arrests in New York included Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, a purported member of the gang Tren de Aragua who is wanted on kidnapping, burglary and other charges in Colorado, according to The New York Post.
Trump thrust the Venezuelan-born prison gang into the national spotlight during the presidential campaign, describing Aurora, Colo. as a town besieged by criminal gangs composed of unauthorized immigrants. (City officials, including Aurora’s Republican mayor, disputed Trump’s portrayal of the Denver suburb.)