Immigration Raids Begin in NYC Under Trump Administration

President Trump’s newly installed Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced on Tuesday morning that federal immigration agents had begun an enforcement action in New York City.

Ms. Noem, who oversees the federal agency that runs the nation’s immigration system, posted a video on X that she said showed an “enforcement operation” in New York that had led to the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges.

The video, which seemed to have been taken before dawn, shows two officers outside an apartment building in the Bronx guiding a man in handcuffs to an S.U.V. with flashing lights. A spokeswoman for the Immigration Customs and Enforcement field office in New York City declined to provide any additional details of the arrest or say whether other operations were in progress.

Ms. Noem wrote on X that “dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets.” She arrived in New York to accompany the enforcement effort; in her first predawn post on the social media platform, she said she was “live this AM from NYC. I’m on it.”

It was not immediately clear how many arrests ICE was conducting in the city or where, but a spokeswoman for Ms. Noem said there were “multiple” enforcement operations in New York on Tuesday.