NEW YORK - A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a Dominican man while arresting him in New York City on Thursday, during what the Department of Homeland Security called a  targeted enforcement operation.  Protesters decried it as an example of the dangers of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

The man survived and is being treated at a hospital, the agency said. It did not describe exactly what led to the shooting, saying only that  during the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon  and that the man was injured.


The agency described him as a  criminal illegal alien  with a prior grand larceny conviction and a history of other arrests. New York police arrested him in December 2023, but he was released, the agency said.

In a statement, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the situation  unconscionable and incredibly serious,  and the Democrat said he aimed to tell President Donald Trump to end all federal immigration enforcement actions in the city. Other local elected officials also pushed for an end to federal immigration enforcement in the city, and some rushed to the scene to hold a heated press conference condemning the shooting.

 We are heartbroken and enraged,  City Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, a Democrat who emigrated from the Dominican Republic and now represents the neighborhood where the shooting happened. Some other elected officials cursed ICE and Trump, a Republican.

Demonstrators at the scene chanted,  ICE off our streets now!  The politicians and protesters planned to march to the hospital where the injured man was being treated.

DHS complained that its officers  are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments  when  dangerous illegal aliens  get released. The agency blamed  reckless sanctuary policies  in Democrat-led areas. There is no clear definition of sanctuary jurisdictions, but the term is generally applied to state and local governments that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

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