MANHATTAN, N.Y. (WPIX) – One day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed a mother in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem encouraged the public to thank officers for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
“Do something nice for them, buy them lunch,” she said during a briefing about ICE operations in New York City on Thursday morning. Noem made the suggestion while announcing the arrest of 54 people in a crackdownin response to the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in Fort Washington Park in July 2025.
The Department of Homeland Security launched the joint enforcement, “Operation Salvo,” with federal and local law agencies to target people said to be affiliated with the Trinitarios gang in New York City. According to Noem, the CBP attackers were connected with the gang…