Exclusive | NYC minority communities cheer ICE raids that rounded up violent criminal migrants: Get them the hell off the street!
New York City residents in Hispanic and black communities that supported President Trump in huge numbers in the 2024 election hailed Tuesday’s local immigration raids that nabbed scores of suspected heinous criminals.Starting in the Bronx — where Trump’s support surged 35% between 2020 and 2024 — heavily armed federal immigration agents stormed through the city, targeting migrants with warrants for murder, kidnapping and other heinous crimes, police sources told The Post.Among those arrested was Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, an alleged ringleader of the notorious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who immigration officers took into custody at an Ogden Avenue apartment in The Bronx.“Oh, thank God they got him,” said a resident who lives near the complex, visibly relieved the violent thug was taken off the streets.Elsewhere in the borough, locals expressed similar sentiments.“Get them the hell off the street! Get them the hell out of the street so people don’t have to walk in fear,” said Evelyn Brown, 80, a Bronx resident from Jamaica who voted for Trump.“Take the damn bad ones away!”A resident of the Knickerbocker apartment complex in Washington Heights in deep-blue Manhattan, where Trump gained 5% in 2024 over his 2020 showing, said he’s happy to see some action being taken against criminals but added that he still hopes some deserving migrant families are offered a path to safety.The resident — who didn’t want to give his name — said he voted for Trump the first time but didn’t make it to the polls in 2024.“Too many people came over the border at once, and now it has to be a whole operation,” he said of the raids.“I don’t want dangerous people on the street, especially if we’re paying for it.People getting hurt on the street.
Why should they get a pass?”“But some of them are families,” he added of migrants who could end up eventually being deported, too, because of their illegal status.“I don’t want to see t...