The Homeland Security Boss showed up with long hair, her face on and a borrowed ICE flak vest….
39 were swept up for gang activity, drug trafficing and other criminal offences ….
New York City and Long Island has 11 MILLION people…..
Mr. Tarentino said that the teams worked off a target list developed by the Department of Homeland Security, which ICE is a part of. He said that agents prioritized people charged with violent crimes, believed to be connected to gangs or involved in drug trafficking, and then worked through a tiered list of less serious offenders.
The 39 arrests on Tuesday were higher than ICE’s average number of daily arrests over the past two years in the New York City area, but it remains to be seen if the agency will be able to maintain or significantly accelerate that pace. Mr. Tarentino said the multiagency collaboration in New York would continue.
“This happened to be a more concentrated effort this week, but this will be an ongoing effort in the days, weeks and months ahead,” he said in an interview.
The focus on criminal activity connected to recent immigrants resurfaced on Wednesday, when city law enforcement officials announced the indictment in Queens of 10 people charged with being members or associates of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has bedeviled the police. The men were accused of participating in a sweeping gun trafficking operation that stretched from the East Coast to Texas and Colorado.
But far less was known about those taken in custody by federal agents a day earlier….
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