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ICE officials defend shooting of New York man, attack 'sanctuary' policies

US immigration officials on Friday defended federal agents who shot and wounded a New York City man in his car with a young child believed to be his son in the back seat, an incident that the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, called an "outrage."

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Reuters· Oct 9, 2:09 PMICE officials defend shooting of New York man, attack 'sanctuary' policies

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ICE Officers Shot New York Man Because They Believed They Were in Danger, Official SaysWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man whom they were trying to arrest in New York because they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.

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New Yorkers Rally Against ICE After Masked Officer Shoots, Injures Man With 5-Year-Old in CarOutraged community members gathered in New York City's Marble Hill neighborhood Thursday night to demand that federal immigration agents leave the city after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fired at least seven shots into a vehicle on a bustling street, wounding the driver while a five-year-old boy sat in the back seat. Mayor Zohran…

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Who Is Oscar Belgal? What We Know About Man ICE Shot in New YorkThe DHS said the man is an "illegal alien from the Dominican Republican with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny."

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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal ArrestsBrenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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Mamdani says he tried to negotiate release of wounded 'criminal migrant' shot by ICE agentNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani failed to negotiate the release of Oscar Belgal, a migrant shot by ICE in the Bronx, and called for the agency's end.

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ICE Agent Shoots Man With Five-Year-Old in the CarAn Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at the scene who opened fire into a vehicle with a five-year-old child Thursday has an alleged history of making violent arrests. In a violent incident Thursday afternoon, plainclothes federal immigration agents fired at least seven rounds into a car in Marble Hill, a residential neighborhood of New York City.…

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ICE officer shoots a man while making an arrest in New York, officials sayA federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy Thursday afternoon, officials said. The Department of Homeland Security said it was seeking to arrest the man in a "targeted enforcement operation," but protesters and local officials decried it as an example of the dangers of the Trump…

PBS NewsHour23h agoWhole story →

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ICE officers who shot man in New York believed they were in danger, official saysFederal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man in New York because he drove his car into officers’ vehicles and they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.

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Mamdani calls ICE 'rotten to its core' after agent shot illegal immigrant in NYCNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called ICE "rotten to its core," saying that the agency "must be abolished" after an agent shot an illegal immigrant.

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ICE SHOOTING: DHS defends agents firing on Oscar Belgal, but admits they didn’t know child was in car; NYPD bodycam shows hospital rushMullin also confirmed that federal agents wore body cameras and that the cameras were on during Thursday’s operation. However, DHS has not released the

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US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man in same car as childOscar Belgal, the 28-year-old man, survived the shooting and is now being held at a detention facility outside of New York, officials said.

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ICE shooting of man in New York with child in his car sparks outrageAn investigation is underway after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in New York City Thursday. Federal authorities say 28-year-old Oscar Belgal attempted to ram officers with his vehicle when they tried to detain him. ICE agents then fired at his car, where a young child was in the back seat. William Brangham reports.

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Trump officials clash with Mamdani over ICE shooting in NYCHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the shooting of a man by an immigration officer in New York City and pushed back on calls from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other officials to end immigration enforcement in the city. The shooting injured the man and occurred in front of a 5-year-old boy, drawing an immediate outcry from New York…

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New York City man shot in car with child present by ICE agents, mayor says - Thu, 08 Oct 2026 PSTNEW YORK – U.S. immigration agents shot and wounded a man Thursday in his car with a child present in the Marble Hill Neighborhood of New York City, according to the mayor, city police and eyewitnesses.

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Mamdani Demands Trump End ICE Operations in New York After ShootingThe response to the incident tests the friendship between the New York mayor and the President.

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Man shot by ICE in the Bronx — Mamdani demands Trump end all operations in NYCDemocratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he called President Donald Trump and will demand the end of all immigration operations in his city after another reported shooting. Agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement surrounded a car in the Bronx and fired into it, shooting a man, according to Mamdani's version of the incident. 'Get ICE out…

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ICE Officers Shot New York Man Because They Believed They Were in Danger, Official SaysWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man whom they were trying to arrest in New York because they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.

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Man shot by ICE in New York CityA U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and wounded a man late Thursday afternoon in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) confirmed. The New York Police Department (NYPD) first reported a shooting "involving federal law enforcement agents" occurred at approximately 4 p.m. in the Bronx's Marble Hill neighborhood, clarifying that…

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