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Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump, Noem blame NYC border patrol agent shooting on sanctuary city policy, bail reform
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump and his administration Monday sought to use the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Patrol agent in a Washington Heights park to bolster his hard-line stance on crime and immigration. As officials charged Miguel Mora Nunez, 21, an undocumented Dominican immigrant with a long rap sheet, Trump blamed the botched robbery on what he called New York's bail reform laws. He denounced 'cashless bail' and blamed the practice for setting 'the worst criminals flooding on our streets.' 'Crime in American cities started to significantly rise when they went to cashless bail,' he wrote on his social media site. 'It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, immediately.' Contrary to Trump's claim, big-city crime has been declining for several years since a COVID pandemic-era spike and is close to multidecade lows. Although Trump didn't specifically mention the Saturday night Washington Heights shooting in his latest post, he earlier called the attack an indictment of lax border enforcement policies. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took dead aim at immigration in a Manhattan news conference about the shooting, which left the unidentified 42-year-old victim recovering from gunshot wounds. 'There is absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City,' Noem said. Noem blamed New York's immigrant-friendly sanctuary city policies with allowing Mora to stay out of jail and avoid potential deportation despite his repeated brushes with law enforcement. She called on Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council to reverse the sanctuary city policies, which restrict city police and law enforcement from fully cooperating with federal immigration authorities. 'Make no mistake, this officer is in the hospital today, fighting for his life, because of the policies of the mayor of the city and the City Council and the people that were in charge of keeping the public safe refused to do so,' she added. Border czar Tom Homan said the shooting illustrates the danger facing immigration enforcement agents, even though authorities say there is no evidence the attacker knew the victim was an off-duty border patrol agent. 'Thank God we're not burying one today,' Homan said. Mora, who was born in the Dominican Republic, entered the country illegally through Arizona in 2023, authorities said. He had two prior arrests for domestic violence in New York and was also wanted to face accusations of robbery and felony assault. He was also wanted in Massachusetts over a stolen weapons case, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. A second man, said to be a 22-year-old friend of Mora from the Bronx, was arrested in connection with the attack Monday. _____
CBS News
17-07-2025
- CBS News
FBI release photo of suspected gunman in Camarillo immigration raid
The FBI released another photo of the man accused of firing a pistol at immigration agents during a protest at a Ventura County farm last week. The federal operation happened on July 10 at the Glass House Farms facility in Camarillo. Tensions between protesters and law enforcement escalated after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were in the process of "executing a warrant at a marijuana facility," according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided to CBS News. Agents formed a line to prevent a crowd of protesters from crossing the roadway. Video from a CBS News Los Angeles photographer at the scene showed agents telling the crowd to move back and disperse before they began deploying what appeared to be less-than-lethal rounds and tear gas canisters. At around the same time, the suspect allegedly fired a pistol at law enforcement. "FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo," Bill Essayli wrote in a post to X last week. "The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd." The initial photo released by law enforcement failed to capture the suspect's face because he was wearing a mask. Aerial footage from the protest shows the suspect appearing to point the firearm at officers. No one was wounded in the shooting. Federal agents said they were also executing a criminal warrant at another farm in Carpinteria around the same time. The DHS stated that approximately 200 people were detained at both sites. Investigators asked anyone with information to call 1(800) 225-5324. As mentioned by Essayli, the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for info leading to his identification, arrest and conviction.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Yahoo
US citizen arrested by Border Patrol in Pico Rivera speaks out after violent arrest
The Brief Adrian Martinez was released from federal custody this week. Immigration officers arrested Martinez last week at the Pico Rivera Walmart after they said he punched two officers. Martinez was released because video of the arrest showed he didn't throw any punches. Martinez is being charged with conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. PICO RIVERA, Calif. - Following a federal hearing, Adrian Martinez was released from federal custody on a $5,000 bond this week. The 20-year-old was arrested by immigration officers at the Pico Rivera Walmart parking lot last week. The arrest was caught on camera. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Feds say man punched agents at Pico Rivera Walmart - security footage shows no punches What we know Federal immigration agents arrested Martinez on June 18 in the Walmart parking lot, when he tried to intervene while agents were conducting one of their operations, detaining undocumented immigrants. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol told FOX 11 after the incident that they arrested Martinez for allegedly punching two officers. But, Judge Patricia Donahue determined the video of the arrest did not show Martinez hitting officers, like they claimed, although it did show him trying to block a federal vehicle. SUGGESTED: LA ICE raids: Food vendor detained is being 'treated like an animal,' family says "I was scared," Martinez said, adding that he kept trying to get up when the officers subdued him, because he was afraid to get hit. Attorneys from the Miller Law Group, who are representing Martinez, say he is being charged — not with assault, or attempted assault — but conspiracy to impede or injure an officer, a felony. "It is clearly a trumped-up charge field to justify the federal agents' treatment" attorneys wrote in their release. What they're saying Martinez said he was held downtown, along with shackled, undocumented immigrants, and feared he'd be deported, even as he tried to tell officers he was born in the US. "They wouldn't talk to me, even let me use a phone to call my family and let them know were I was," Martinez said. Martinez's mother said she tried to show Adrian's birth certificate to agents at the Federal building, but they told her that Adrian wasn't there, even as he was watching his own mom from a van. He could not let her know where he was. "These are the people we are supposed to trust," Adrian's mother said. Martinez's arrest and the accusation that he hit officers resulted in loud protests in Pico Rivera, where ICE raids have prompted complaints from the public and politicians. Martinez is due back in court next month. The Source Information in this story is from interviews with the Martinez family and the Miller Law Group, and previous FOX 11 reports.
