Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Immigration and Customs Enforcement made roughly 2,100 arrests in a targeted operation in New York carried out over the last month.
Watch Mullin’s remarks in the video player above.
During a news conference in New York, Mullin said the people arrested were “criminals” and slammed New York’s governor and mayor for not working with ICE.
The news conference comes as ICE has ramped up operations nationwide this summer but data shows that the agency is increasingly arresting people who do not have a criminal record.
Data released by the Deportation Data Project shows ICE arrests jumping to nearly 50,000 in July but more than half of those arrested had not been convicted of any crimes and weren’t facing criminal charges.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held their own press conference at the same time as Mullin’s, telling reporters that the Trump administration was withholding $87 million in counterterrorism funding to New York.
