
HIGHBRIDGE, Bronx (WABC) — A muti-agency operation concentrated within the Bronx on Tuesday focused dozens of undocumented immigrants for arrest and deportation, together with a purported member of Tren de Aragua wished in reference to a caught-on-camera house invasion and taking pictures in Aurora, Colorado.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem rode alongside federal brokers and witnessed each legal and civil enforcement operations, in line with sources accustomed to the actions in New York.
Noem posted images of the raids on social media all through the morning.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, was arrested after closely armed brokers from Homeland Safety Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration and NYPD officers poured into an condominium on Ogden Avenue within the Highbridge part of the Bronx. He was wished in Aurora and in New York for a number of crimes together with housebreaking, kidnapping, extortion and menacing.
He’s anticipated to seem federal court docket in Decrease Manhattan in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. Zambrano-Pacheco crossed the U.S. border in 2023.
Two different purported members of the identical gang wished in the identical Aurora crime have been arrested within the Bronx shortly after Thanksgiving: 23-year-old Danyeer Aramillo-Meneses and 25-year-old Edilson Yoel Pena-Angulo.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, together with federal companions together with the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service, started conducting enhanced focused operations right this moment in New York Metropolis to implement U.S. immigration legislation and protect public security and nationwide safety by maintaining doubtlessly harmful legal aliens out of our communities,” a spokesperson for ICE stated in an announcement.
There was one other arrest on Creston Avenue within the Bronx — a suspect who was reportedly wished in reference to a double homicide within the Dominican Republic.
And one other particular person was taken into custody by federal brokers on Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights. Few particulars have been identified in that case.
In response to Tuesday’s actions, Authorized Help Society launched a brand new Know Your Rights hub, with data on superior household planning for non-citizen dad and mom, ICE arrests and detention, the federal harboring legislation and extra.
“On this second, it’s vital that each one New Yorkers know their rights and are as ready as doable. We’re proud to launch these Know Your Rights supplies and convenings to help the folks we serve, communities, and fellow advocates navigating new anti-immigrant insurance policies and legal guidelines,” stated Deborah Lee, Lawyer-in-Cost of the Immigration Regulation Unit at The Authorized Help Society.
The targets of different immigration operations within the metropolis Tuesday weren’t instantly clear.
Mayor Eric Adams stated he directed the NYPD to coordinate with DHS and different federal legislation enforcement companies to conduct the immigration enforcement motion on Tuesday morning.
“Early this morning – because it often does as a part of a multi-agency process power – our metropolis coordinated with the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety on a federal legal investigation involving a suspect hiding in New York Metropolis. Beforehand, I directed the NYPD to coordinate with DHS’ Homeland Safety Investigations and different federal legislation enforcement companies – as allowed by legislation – to conduct a focused operation to arrest a person linked with a number of violent crimes, each right here in New York and in Aurora, Colorado, together with housebreaking, kidnapping, extortion, firearms possession, menacing with a firearm, crime of violence, and different prices. As I’ve repeatedly stated, we is not going to hesitate to associate with federal authorities to deliver violent criminals to justice – simply as we’ve finished for years. Our dedication to defending our metropolis’s law-abiding residents, each residents and immigrants, stays unwavering.”
New York’s “Sanctuary Metropolis” legal guidelines forbid cooperating in all however legal instances. The NYPD can not help in mass, civil deportations. However aiding in apprehending a migrant fugitive is in line with metropolis and state legislation, says Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“My understanding is that that they had particular names of people that dedicated crimes-serious offenders-and these are precisely the people who we wish faraway from the State of New York,” Hochul stated.
However federal authorities are firm-and they’re casting a large internet.
“If you’re a person, a overseas nationwide, who illegally enters the US of America, you might be by definition, a legal,” stated White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
(ABC Information contributed to this report.)
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