
ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Who Was Repeatedly Arrested, Released by NYC Authorities
The New York City Department of Corrections and the New York Police Department refused to detain a Venezuelan national despite his alleged five-month crime spree after entering the country illegally, including allegedly assaulting an NYPD officer, federal immigration officials said. On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers with a special fugitive operation team arrested 21-year-old Brayan Freites-Macias at his residence in New York City. He is among five individuals identified as “unlawfully present noncitizens” by ICE and accused in the robbery of a Target store in the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan on April 2. One of four police officers who attempted to stop the gang was reportedly injured when they assaulted him....
