ICE nabbed nearly 2,200 illegal migrants, including convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, in New York in the past month alone — and more agents and sweeps are on the way, the feds said Tuesday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency caught up to 2,197 criminals in the Empire State between July 27 and Aug. 29 as part of “Operation Rotten Apple” — which Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin noted was conducted “with no help” from either New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“These arrests included gang members, rapists, murderers and child predators — which I believe there is a special place in hell for those individuals,” Mullin told reporters at a press conference.
“Operation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer,” he added in a statement.
Asked by a reporter if he was prepared to send more federal agents to New York for round-ups, Mullin replied, “Absolutely.
“Because they refused to work with us … we will send as many people as we have possible to make sure we are restoring law and order,” he said.
While celebrating the operation, Mullin told reporters that the need for the mass round-up stemmed from the fact that the mayor and governor passed legislation this year severely limiting local government cooperation with ICE.
Mamdani “is extremely out of touch with what the American people want and what public safety actually looks like,” Mullin railed.
“These are individuals that we took off the streets of New York to protect the people here because you have a mayor here that refuses to work.”
Those arrested included Bogdan Detrovich Gren, a Ukrainian national in the US illegally with convictions for murder, kidnapping, abduction resulting in death, and criminal possession of a weapon, according to DHS.
Andreas Bernal Chiquito, an illegal migrant from Colombia who was also caught, has past arrests for sexual conduct against a child and injuring a child under age 17.
Also taken into custody were Palvinder Singh, an illegal migrant from India who was convicted of rape in Germany, and Carlos Mendez-Acosta, a Venezuelan migrant convicted of rape, according to the feds.
Mamdani signed an executive order shortly after he assumed office in January, reinforcing sanctuary protections against what he called “abusive immigration enforcement” by the Trump administration.
The move severely limits local agencies and law enforcement from working with ICE to put and keep many illegal migrants in custody.
Hizzoner has since passed additional legislation making it harder for local law enforcement to cooperate with President Trump’s illegal-immigration crackdown.
Hochul also successfully pushed through legislation preventing state cops from partnering with federal immigration authorities to catch people and barring ICE agents from most public places such as hospitals and parks.
According to DHS, such “radical sanctuary policies” have resulted in more than 13,000 criminal aliens back onto New York streets.
“Democratic politicians in New York and elsewhere say that they care about public safety, but won’t let immigration law enforcement officers into their jails to take criminals into custody; instead they release them to their streets,” said Trump administration border czar Tom Homan in a statement.
Mullin said the federal government should not send a single cent to New York until it complies with immigration authorities. President Trump is looking into options, he said.
“I don’t think we should be sending one federal penny to sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. And I know President Trump is looking at options there. In my opinion, I don’t think taxpayer dollars from the great people of Oklahoma or any other red state should be funding a state that embraces these criminals like New York,” Mullin said.
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