Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), together with several federal law enforcement agencies, announced on April 4 that it had arrested 133 illegal immigrants during an enforcement operation in New York.
The operation, conducted between March 24 and 28, focused on “criminal illegal alien offenders and other immigration violators in western, central, and northern New York to bolster public safety, national security, and border security,” ICE said in a statement.
Twenty of those arrested had prior criminal convictions or charges, including three convicted of homicide. Nine of those arrested had previously been removed from the country.
The arrests include a 49-year-old illegal immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago convicted of murder, a 50-year-old Chinese illegal immigrant convicted of assault, and a 66-year-old illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic convicted of sexual conduct with a child.
Enforcement efforts were concentrated in and around the Buffalo area and then expanded through western and upstate New York.
Eighty-four illegal immigrants were apprehended in the Buffalo and Rochester regions, with the remaining 49 taken into custody in Albany, Massena, Rouses Point, and Syracuse.
Law enforcement agencies that partnered with ICE in the enforcement operations include the Drug Enforcement Administration New York, Attorney’s Offices for the Western and Northern Districts of New York, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Buffalo, and FBI Albany.
“The success of this enhanced enforcement operation underscores the importance of utilizing a whole-of-government approach when protecting the public from criminal aliens and dangerous individuals living in our western, central, and northern New York communities,” said Erin Keegan, ICE Homeland Security Investigations Buffalo special agent in charge.
Arrests of illegal immigrant criminals for deportation have increased since President Donald Trump took office for his second term.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE made 32,809 arrests in the first 50 days of the Trump administration, which almost equaled the total arrests made in the entire fiscal year 2024.
These arrests included 14,111 convicted criminals with 9,980 carrying pending charges against them. ICE arrested 1,155 criminal gang members, nearly 2 1/2 times the number of arrests made during the same period last year.
“We have deported known terrorists, cartel members, and gang members from our country,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
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