High NYPD brass have been pressed with questions Wednesday relating to their partnership with ICE and the arrest of a migrant gang member within the Bronx the day prior.
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High NYPD brass have been pressed Wednesday in regards to the division’s partnership with ICE a day after the federal company, at President Trump’s course, carried out raids within the Bronx that led to twenty reported arrests.
Mayor Eric Adams launched a press release in a while Tuesday confirming that he directed the NYPD to coordinate with “Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies, as allowed by law, to conduct a targeted operation,” resulting in the arrest of alleged Venezuelan gang member Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco.
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem noticed a Bronx ICE raid on Jan. 28, 2025.@DEANEWYORKDiv/X
Throughout an unrelated press convention in Queens on Jan. 29, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch was peppered with questions relating to the NYPD’s partnership with the feds, which revealed that native cops solely assisted with the cuffing of Zambrano-Pacheco and not one of the different takedowns.
“On the Bronx case, we have members of the NYPD assigned as TFOs [task force officers] as part of an HSI Task Force, and yesterday, they participated in executing an arrest warrant in the Bronx as I described,” Tisch mentioned.
Police say Homeland Safety initiated the investigation into Zambrano-Pacheco however that NYPD assisted with the operation after a Colorado decide signed an arrest warrant for a gang member.
Nonetheless, regardless of these arrested allegedly being hardened criminals, the shortage of transparency from the federal authorities relating to particulars of who the arrestees are as they’re led out of their houses underneath the quilt of darkness has migrant households frightened about their family members. In keeping with revealed reviews, some mother and father are too afraid to take their kids to high school out of concern of ICE.
When quizzed on the fears of the group, NYPD Chief of Detective Joseph Kenny pushed again, charging that the division just isn’t coming after them except they dedicated against the law.
“We are being painfully clear on our intentions and our participation in these operations. We, the NYPD, are not participating in any civil enforcement of immigration laws. What we are participating in is investigations and operations involving criminals,” Kenny mentioned. ”In case you’re a migrant in New York Metropolis, you’ll be able to go about your life no downside, however the minute you break the regulation, you turn into a felony — you then turn into our downside.”
Tisch backed up this sentiment.
“I want to be very clear that nothing about this department’s posture has changed in the past week. The mayor has been very clear that we are going to go after criminals regardless of immigration status,” Tisch mentioned.
