Kristi Noem, former Governor of Dakota del Sur, was confirmed last Sunday by the US Senate as the new Secretary of National Security (a position equivalent to the Minister of the Interior in Spain). Shortly after, in the early hours of Tuesday, a bulletproof vest … of the Immigration and Customs Police (ICE, in its acronym in English;
Then, Noem documented in detail his participation in the night of Reza .
The Secretary of National Security shared a video of the arrest of an immigrant accused of “kidnapping, aggression and robbery” in a Bronx building. “We are in New York this morning, taking out this slag from the streets,” Noem told the camera.
The intention of the one chosen by Trump to direct the security forces of the country was, as the incipient administration has done so far, send a hard hand message: very publicly publicized in a symbolic place.
New York is the largest city in the US is also the great city of immigrants, where a good part of the populations that have nurtured the country since its creation have entered. At present, still one in three New Yorkers was born in another country. And it is where more undocumented immigrants are estimated about 400,000.
In the last two years, the Big Apple has been overwhelmed by a flood of arrivals of undocumented immigrants, which have drowned the city’s social care infrastructure. It is estimated that since the beginning of 2023, when mass immigrants began to arrive from the southern border -on many occasions, with trips provided by the republican authorities of those states -the city has spent 5,000 million dollars to meet the needs of immigrants.
New York is also a ‘city-sanctuary’, where local institutions-controlled by Democrats-refuse to participate with federal security forces in the location, arrest and processing of undocumented immigrants.
In recent days, ICE has multiplied its troops to carry out arrests. The usual thing is that five teams of ‘La migra’ operate in New York. In the morning they had Noem from Guesta were twenty teams. His priority is the arrest of undocumented immigrants with a criminal record. For example, they arrested a Dominican persecuted by Interpol for homicide. But the Trump administration has warned that if in the course of the raids they run into undocumented immigrants without a history, they will also be arrested. In the few hours of raids in which Noem was embedded in one of those teams, twenty people were arrested. Of them, eight had no history.
Hard messages
These numbers show that, for the moment, the Trump administration is being more capable of sending a hardness message than to make the arrests and mass deportations that the new president promised in the campaign.
Trump demanded last weekend that the ICE offices meet demanding quotas. The objective is 75 arrests per day for each of the 25 offices distributed throughout the country. The impact of the quota was immediately noticed: 286 arrests on Saturday, the day Trump demanded that goal, he went to 1,179 arrests on Sunday.
It is not clear how many of these undocumented immigrants have been deported immediately. According to the numbers of the NOEM department, 7,300 deportations have been made since the beginning of the Trump administration. Most of them are immediate returns of immigrants arrested when crossing the border, but deportation flights that have occurred, something common, on the other hand, in previous governments are also included.
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