Mullin says ICE didn’t know 5-year-old boy was in car when officer fired
Mullin said ICE agents fired after Belgal drove toward officers, while city leaders demanded body camera footage and condemned the operation.
- On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani, claiming ICE agents were unaware a 5-year-old child sat in the backseat during Thursday's shooting of Oscar Belgal in the Bronx.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an "outrage," describing ICE as a "rotten" agency that "works to sow chaos and terror" after agents fired seven rounds at the 28-year-old man.
- Mullin repeatedly called Belgal a "thug" and "threat to society," citing prior charges including forcible theft and grand larceny. He stated DHS offered to release Belgal if the NYPD took custody, which Mamdani refused.
- Immigration arrests in New York State climbed 68% this summer, reaching 1,552 in July, as Mullin discussed coordinating with Gov. Hochul to detain 100 criminals illegally in New York State.
- Belgal, originally from the Dominican Republic, remains in custody outside New York City, while the two suspects arrested in the incident were in the United States illegally, underscoring ongoing friction over sanctuary city policies.
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ICE officers shot a man in New York because they believed they were in danger, official says - Boston News, Weather, Sports
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man in New York because he drove his car into their vehicles as they attempted to arrest him and they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday. Those agents weren’t aware that the man’s 5-year-old son was with him in the car when they fired bullets into the vehicle, said Marcos Charles, head of ICE’s Enforcement…
The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, this Friday criticized the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, and the so-called sanctuary city policies, one day after an agent of the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE, in English) shot Dominican Oscar Belgal, 28 years old, inside the car in which he was with his 5-year-old son in the Bronx. The mayor, in turn, classified the case as revolting and said that the child was traumatized a…
ICE SHOOTING: DHS defends agents firing on Oscar Belgal, but admits they didn’t know child was in car; NYPD bodycam shows hospital rush
ICE agents did not know a 5-year-old boy was inside the vehicle when at least one agent opened fire on the driver in Marble Hill Thursday afternoon, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin admitted Friday, as federal officials defended the shooting and revealed that the wounded man had been moved to an undisclosed detention facility…
‘We didn’t, but the illegal knew…’: Mullin slams outcry over ICE shooting of NYC man with 5-year-old
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin defends ICE agents after a shooting in New York’s Bronx left a man wounded while his five-year-old son was inside the car. “How could ICE agents not know that a kid was in the car?” Mullin pushes back against public outrage, claiming agents were unaware of the child’s presence during the operation. Watch the latest on the NYC ICE shooting, Mullin’s fiery response, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, s…
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