Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Buffalo, New York, took a shot at Gov. Kathy Hochul’s bad immigration policies when they announced the arrest of a wanted illegal immigrant.
Buffalo Field office director Thomas Brophy said they will continue to protect citizens “regardless of what the governor of New York says.”
“The men and women of ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations] we will continue to protect our communities from dangerous criminals, regardless of what the governor of New York state says,” he said in a statement Friday.
“We will not be stopped by politicians who vote to protect the citizens of this nation,” said Brophy.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference addressing NYC’s price hikes. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Brophy’s response came after ICE Buffalo announced the arrest of a Brazilian man with multiple local and domestic charges in Brazil.
The agency said that the unidentified migrant has been charged with strangulation and endangering the welfare of a child. He was also being investigated in Brazil for several crimes, including murder.
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“This is the second case in as many days that ERO Buffalo officers have arrested a foreign national trying to escape his crime by entering the United States illegally,” Brophy said.
Immigrants line up outside a re-ticketing center in New York City in 2023. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
He said this case is a reminder of the dangers of the state’s immigration system.
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“These cases highlight the dangers of ‘sanctuary’ areas and state policies that prevent law enforcement from cooperating with ERO,” Brophy said.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that New York, which has seen more than 220,000 immigrants arrive in the city since the spring of 2022. “destroyed” by the influx of immigrants.
The New York Times reported that Manuel Castro, New York’s immigration commissioner, has vowed not to follow “the federal government’s directives in cases of mass deportation.”
Migrants board a state-sponsored bus in Eagle Pass, Texas, bound for New York City on March 11. (Christopher Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Castro’s statement reflects a trend of state and local officials saying they will reject President-elect Trump’s immigration policies. Trump campaigned, in part, on enforcing tougher immigration laws and deporting immigrants.
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Illinois, Democratic Alliance Gov. JB Pritzker he promised to raise the holy place, saying boldly, saying: “If you help my people, you come through me.”
Los Angeles, Democratic Mayor Karen Bass was instrumental in passing a local law restricting cooperation with state immigration authorities.
“Especially because of the increasing threats to the immigrant communities here in Los Angeles, I stand with the people of this city,” said Bass. “This time needs to be urgent. Immigrant protection makes our communities stronger and our city better.”
In Denver, Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston vowed to reject Trump’s proposed immigration policies, predicting a “Tiananmen Square moment” if federal immigration officials they are trying to do their job.
President Trump, left, and acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan speak during a legislative hearing on sanctuary cities in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2018. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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“It is beyond us to have DPD [Denver Police Department] Stopped at the state line to keep you out, you’d have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston told The Denverite. “It’s like a Tiananmen Square moment with a rose and a gun, right? You’ll have all those Highland mothers who came out to the emigrants.”
Trump has vowed to begin deportation efforts on his first day back in office, recently saying he would be open to declaring a national emergency and using the military to make it happen.
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Trump’s commitment to closing the border was reinforced by his choice of “border king,” Tom Homanwho served as acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first Trump administration.
“If you don’t want to work with us, get the hell out of here every time. We will,” Homan said recently.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the ICE Buffalo office and Hochul for comment.
