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Port Chester, NY
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Police Deny ICE Activity Amid Social Media Rumors In Port Chester
Police in a Westchester County village are pushing back against social media speculation about potential immigration enforcement activity. The Port Chester Police Department issued a statement on social media on Wednesday, Feb. 5 in which they denied claims that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be conducting operations in the village on Thursday, Feb. 6. The rumors, which allegedly originated from an overheard conversation in a local deli, were later amplified in a Facebook post, police said. "We have no credible information concerning this response or h…
Pleasantville, NY
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ICE Looks For Person With Criminal Warrant In Pleasantville
Federal immigration agents conducted an operation in Pleasantville on Thursday, Jan. 30, as part of efforts to locate an individual with a criminal warrant, officials announced. According to a statement from the Village of Pleasantville, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) notified the Pleasantville Police Department that agents would be operating in the village to apprehend a specific person. However, local authorities clarified that Pleasantville police were not involved in the warrant service. Agents were seen operating in the area of Wheeler Avenue in t…
Dorchester, MA
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Boston Child Sex Trafficker Will Admit To Trying To Get Witness Deported: Feds
A child sex traffick charged with exposing himself to a woman will plead guilty to trying to threaten her into silence, authorities said. Mark Pinnock Jr., 32, of Boston, is charged with one count of witness intimidation after he tried to get the woman deported for illegally being in the United States, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Pinnock worked as an Amazon delivery driver in July 2022 when he allegedly showed his penis to a woman working at a condominium complex, the prosecutor said. She reported him to the police. Pinnock was out of prison on supervised rele…
Newark, NJ
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ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey
Two fugitive murder suspects – one from Brazil who fled to Newark and another from El Salvador who was living in Elizabeth – were among 115 foreign nationals captured by ICE agents in New Jersey last week, officials said. Also seized in last week’s sweep of nationals illegally living in New Jersey were a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member found in Paterson and a deported child abuser from Mexico who was living In Guttenberg, they said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundup targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators who were “a threat to …
Armonk, NY
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ICE Conducts Immigration Sweep Operations In Westchester
Westchester County has not been not immune to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps targeting undocumented immigrants in cities nationwide in the past week. “The Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement tactics — from forcible family separations, to so-called collateral detentions, to menacing tweets that warn of sweeping round-ups — are based on cruelty, fear, and division,” New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson posted online on Wednesday, July 17. A sweep was conducted in New Rochelle over the Friday, July 12 weekend. It is unclear if any other Westchester cities, towns or vil…
Newark, NJ
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13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested By ICE In 4-Day New Jersey Operation
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 13 immigration violators in New Jersey during a four-day surge effort, the agency said. The operation targeted aliens who have been issued a final order of removal in the past five years, have failed to depart the United States, and have received criminal convictions or have pending criminal charges. “As this operation clearly demonstrates, ICE continues to focus its efforts first on public safety threats,” ERO Newark Field Office Director John Tsoukaris said. “The vast majority of the individuals targeted in this effort ha…
Hackensack, NJ
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Grewal's New Rules: NJ Sheriffs Can No Longer Hold Immigrants Charged With Crimes For ICE
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal on Thursday ordered county sheriffs to ignore ICE detainers if a local judge orders the release of a suspected illegal immigrant who’s been charged with a crime. Grewal also prohibited police and jail operators from holding a detainee arrested for a minor crime “past the time he or she would otherwise be released from custody simply because ICE has submitted an immigration detainer.” Not only that, he forbade them from even notifying ICE of their release. “With respect to detainees charged with violent or serious offenses – such as murder, rape,…
Stratford, CT
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Two Taken Into Custody By ICE Outside Court In Fairfield County
The lawyer for a man facing deportation after he was grabbed outside of court by immigration agents said his client may have little recourse despite being the father of a legal American resident. Edwin Silva, 22, was one of two men confronted outside the Golden Hill Street courthouse last week by an ICE team, according to this report in the Connecticut Post. The undocumented immigrant dove over a chest-high retaining wall and fled down the street, leaving his sneakers behind, The Post said. The immigration enforcement officers and local police arrested Silva about a half mile away at the…
