One day after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem came to New York City to tout ongoing immigration operations within the five boroughs. And to take a few shots at Mayor Zohran Mamdani, slamming the new mayor for his response to the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Your mayor just said in that statement that he is going to stand with illegal people who have broken our law before he’s going to put New York City citizens first,” Noem told a sea of reporters at One World Trade Center Thursday afternoon, referencing the statement<\/a> Mamdani put out yesterday. “His job and why he was elected is to protect the people who live here \u2026 Instead, the mayor in that statement chose to stand with illegals instead of those individuals who just want the chance to raise their families in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n While the newly inaugurated mayor called the shooting a murder, describing it as \u201conly the latest horror in a year of cruelty,\u201d he said nothing of standing with some New Yorkers over others. \u201cAs ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cNew York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.\u201d<\/p>\n Protests erupted across the country in wake of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good\u2019s death, several of which unfolded in New York City over the past 24 hours. Dueling narratives about what led to the fatal shooting of the U.S. citizen have only fueled the national firestorm. While Noem and other federal officials\u2019 attempted to paint the incident as a justified act of self defense, state and local officials adamantly disputed their claims. Video of the shooting<\/a> appears to contradict the Trump administration\u2019s account.<\/p>\n Noem mentioned neither the shooting nor the national outrage throughout the majority of the Thursday press conference. It wasn\u2019t until the end, facing a flurry of questions about the incident, that she doubled down on her earlier rhetoric \u2013 and took that shot at Mamdani.\u00a0<\/p>\n Flanked by top customs and homeland security investigation officials, Noem instead touted the success of a multi-agency operation in New York City that she said led to the arrests of 54 individuals “loosely affiliated” with the Dominican American Trinitarios gang. That includes two suspects charged with the shooting of an<\/a> off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington Heights this summer. She and other speakers repeatedly attributed the incident to New York elected officials, blaming sanctuary city and bail reform laws for allowing alleged gang members to live in the city undetected. Department of Homeland Security communications with the mayor\u2019s office and the New York City Police Department have not been productive, Noem added. \u201cI\u2019d encourage the leaders in this city and your governor and in other cities and states across this country to work with us rather than opposing us,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Noem\u2019s appearance in New York City coincided with a flurry of protests defending immigrant New Yorkers \u2013 underscoring the deep division between its leaders and the Trump administration over the issue. Last year, ICE arrested more than 3,200 people<\/a> in New York City as of mid-October \u2013 57% of whom were subsequently deported. Data released by the New York Immigration Coalition last month found that about 70% of the people<\/a> detained by ICE have no criminal conviction or previous record.<\/p>\n \u201cNoem\u2019s baseless and spurious attacks on the city\u2019s sanctuary policies are designed to incite fear among residents and try to bully NYC Mayor Mamdani into abandoning our city\u2019s vital sanctuary policies,\u201d New York Immigration Coalition President and CEO Murad Awawdeh said in a statement. \u201cThe facts are clear: cities with sanctuary policies like ours keep communities safe. No changes to these policies are needed or warranted. New Yorkers will not be intimidated by DHS Secretary Noem or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier Thursday morning outside 26 Federal Plaza, a coalition of elected officials, legal service providers and advocates urged the state to invest $175 million into immigrant legal services and to pass legislation to<\/a> provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation. As federal immigration enforcement escalates against New Yorkers, the New York for All Act<\/a> \u2013 which would bolster sanctuary protections for immigrants \u2013 and the \u200bAccess to Representation Act<\/a> has gained momentum going into a new legislative session. The latter, along with a newer measure known as the Building Up Immigrant Legal Defense Act<\/a>, were at the heart of the Thursday rally.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not the time to nitpick about what we should or should not do,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris said. \u201cWe need to do all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2301,9,24,2327,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-94101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-immigration","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-politics","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}