ICE Raids Detain Bushwick, Elmhurst and Staten Island Residents: Advocates
Gwynne Hogan
NEW YORK — Immigration officials arrested 41 undocumented people last week in the New York City area, 38 of whom had criminal convictions, including residents from the North Shore of Staten Island, Bushwick and Elmhurst, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and advocates.
The raids were part of "routine, daily targeted operations to arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation's immigration laws," according to a Feb. 11 memo leaked to New York Immigration Coalition over the weekend.
On Monday ICE confirmed some of the details in the memo, adding that the arrests included a self-professed gang member from El Salvadoran gang member with an assault conviction and a Jamaican and a Mexican with first degree sexual assault convictions against children under the age of 11.
The agency didn't release any further details on the other 38 people cuffed between Monday and Friday last week and no further information on the three people who'd been arrested with no criminal convictions
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