In Queens, a Mexican national with a previous arrest for attempted murder was bagged, while a Mexican previously charged with three counts of rape and sexual assault was captured in the Bronx, according to law enforcement sources.
And in upper Manhattan, a Dominican national wanted for a double murder in their home country was also taken into custody.
Those were just a few of the suspects arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEI) Monday, while officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies partook in the raids and arrested more.
The raids began in the Big Apple before daybreak Tuesday, beginning in the Bronx and reaching all five boroughs by the time they ended.
Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem even joined, riding in an armored car while agents knocked down apartment doors and hauled suspects off in shackles and cuffs.
Noem said one of their first arrests was "a criminal alien with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges."
Another was 20-year-old Niefred Serpa-Acosta — a member of the
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n Tren de Aragua gang suspected of partaking in an armed break-in of an apartment building in Aurora, Colo., that became an emblematic image of the border crisis.