The Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued 400% more detainers in New York City since President Trump took office than in the entire Biden administration.
Since January 20, ICE has issued 6,025 arrest requests to transfer custody or detainers in the sanctuary city. During the Biden administration, ICE issued 9,472 detainers in the city.
“In just six months ICE has issued over 6,000 detainers in NYC alone—that’s more than a 400 percent increase in the number of detainers lodged under Biden,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “When sanctuary politicians like Mayor Eric Adams ignore ICE detainers, they are protecting criminal illegal aliens at the expense of American citizens.”
“These are barbaric criminals with prior convictions for rape, murder, drug trafficking, and instead of holding them for ICE, sanctuary politicians release them back into your communities. These reckless policies have deadly consequences,” she said. “Just this week, two illegal aliens who entered our country and were released under President Biden shot and nearly killed a brave off-duty CBP officer. Both criminal illegal aliens had been arrested previously for violent crimes and released by the NYPD.”
DHS added that while detainers have skyrocketed since Trump took office, assaults on ICE agents have also soared, increasing by 830% since January. “This increase in violence is largely driven by anti-ICE rhetoric and further fueled by these sanctuary politicians and their reckless policies,” DHS stated.
The new statistics follow border czar Tom Homan declaring that actions against sanctuary cities are a top priority. “If they won’t allow us into jail, we’ll bring more agents into the community,” he said. “We’ll flood the zone in New York City and other major sanctuary cities.”
