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Deportation officers made arrests throughout New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and Jersey City, New Jersey.
The 83 arrested were from 25 countries, including Albania, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Trinidad, and Uzbekistan.
More than 50 individuals arrested during the operation in New York were released from local law enforcement custody with active detainers, according to ICE.
Eighteen of the individuals arrested had been previously removed or deported from the U.S., and three of the individuals arrested were foreign fugitives.
The criminal histories of individuals arrested included an assortment of charges, including child abuse, harassment, sexual and aggravated assault, trespassing, weapons violations, robbery, drug charges, and driving while intoxicated.
Nearly 85 percent of individuals arrested on immigration charges also have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. Some individuals have multiple criminal convictions and pending charges for crimes against victims.
Some of the those arrests in New York cited by ICE were:
- A 38-year-old Salvadoran citizen arrested in Nassau County in Uniondale. ICE previously removed the subject from the U.S. following a conviction in 2005 for third-degree rape of a victim less than 17 years old.
- A 23-year-old, self-described 18th Street gang member and Salvadoran citizen arrested in in Nassau County in Hempstead. An immigration judge in Massachusetts ordered the subject removed from the U.S. in absentia in 2019. A judge convicted the ICE fugitive in 2020 for third-degree assault: recklessly causing physical injury.
- A 38-year-old Salvadoran citizen arrested in in Nassau County in East Meadow. An immigration judge previously ordered the subject removed from the U.S. in 2006. In July 2020, the ICE fugitive was released from local law enforcement custody with an active detainer, following an arrest for second-degree assault: intent to cause physical injury with a weapon/instrument; and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon: intent to use.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York Field Office Director Thomas R. Decker said that despite the inherent risk of conducting operations during a pandemic, agents successfully carried out the mission while ensuring the safety of agency personnel and arrestees by wearing personnel protective equipment, which included face masks, eye protection, and gloves.
“Some criminal aliens may think that just because the nation is fighting the coronavirus, ICE is impaired from carrying out its sworn duty of removing egregious criminals from American communities,” said Decker. “I think the 83 immigration arrests in New York are evidence that that could not be farther from the truth. ICE officers will continue to conduct enforcement removal operations while making every effort to minimize the risk to agency personnel, aliens, and the public during this pandemic.”
Decker said more than 50 of the 83 individuals arrested in the operation in New York were released from local custody due to declined detainers.
“It’s shocking to think that instead of criminal aliens being safely transferred to ICE custody, local sanctuary city policies force law enforcement agencies to release them back into the streets to commit more criminal acts,” Decker said.
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