NYC residents praise ICE raids after violent gang member captured

Immigration officer This week I was busy removing criminal illegal migrants from the streets of New York City. Many residents went the sweeps to make the Big Apple a safer place to live.

A member of the violent Venezuelan gang tren de Aragua, who gained a foothold in both New York City and in other cities, was one of the raids on Tuesday.

Gang member Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco26, was picked up by the investigation by Drug Enforcement Administration and the US homeland protection officers in the Bronx. Zambrano-Pacheco is sought by the police in Aurora, Colorado, because of the first degree and threats with a firearm from an incident on August 18, in which the police and five other armed men are accused, broken into an apartment with a weapon.

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Zambrano-Pacheco was arrested when the immigration authorities stormed an apartment building of the OGDEN Avenue in the Bronx in the early morning, the New York Post reports, citing sources. The building is opposite a public school.

Other sweeps took place in other parts of the Bronx and Queens and came afterwards President Donald Trump The support in the city increased in 2024. In the Bronx, for example, Trump’s voice rose by 11%compared to 2020.

“I am glad that they are gone,” a resident of New York City told Fox News. “I planned to call ice cream to be honest with them, but they came here before I could call them. There were 15 of them in a bedroom. They constantly put on drugs [of the building]. “

He claimed they crouched in the building and had “destroyed” an apartment.

A bronx woman, 80-year-old Evelyn Brown, said she was relieved that the raids were underway. Brown, originally from Jamaica New York Post. “Take the damned bad way!”

The Drug Enforcement Administration in New York and ICE enforcement and distance operations published pictures from the raids.

Home protection Secretary Kristi Noem was also present for the raids and said that the federal immigration authorities were aimed at violent criminals and the operations were “very specific”. She called for the city laws of the BIF Apple – which the city commission to offer migrants protection and to prohibit the prosecution of coordinating with ice cream.

“We take the worst in this country that makes our streets so dangerous,” said Noem to Sean Hannity about “Hannity”. “The community is now safer. That is the reality of it.

Tyreek Goodman, a member of the conservative Bronx County party, welcomed the raids and said that the risk of the gang’s violent crimes had chosen the fear within the community.

“You have the feeling that the fear of what happens when you come here next,” said Goodman, a candidate of the city council. “There were many crimes on the MTA based on people who shouldn’t be here. So we have to understand that this is a time for us to receive the law enforcement authorities.”

Ramses Frías, a local activist in Queens who expressed concerns about a crisis crisis in his neighborhood, said the raids were also cordially welcomed by the community.

“Many residents, from immigrants to citizens, greet ice cream and take the criminals from these communities,” Frías, a candidate of the city council, told Fox News Digital. “They welcome the right and order and want safe roads.”

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US representative Nicole MalliotakisThe district of Staten Island and Brooklyn said that the Trump government has not wasted time to initiate the removal of dangerous, violent foreign criminals and gangs from the streets of New York City.

She said that the groups had “conducted chaos in our city in the past four years and committed thousands of crimes, including robberies, sexual crimes, attacks by NYPD officials and even murder”.

Not everyone supported the procedure. Alhea Athens, a democrat of the New York City Council, said she would demand answers and measures to ensure that families are protected and human rights are respected.

“It is both discouraging and unacceptable that Community members are removed from their houses without proper procedures or transparency,” wrote Athens about X.

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“The long -lasting effects of these attacks on our community cannot be reversed.”

New York Attorney General Letitia JamesIn the meantime, there was an obvious warning to the state and local law enforcement authorities who work with the federal authorities. In one post on Tuesday, she said that she would monitor the situation carefully to ensure that the state protection guidelines are not violated.

“My office is aware of the increasing presence of ice all over New York City,” she said. “I monitor the situation to ensure that our laws are respected and that people are not violated. We have sent criminal prosecution guidance and it has to be followed.”

Louis Casiano and Peter Pinedo from Fox News contributed to this report.