After CBP Agent Is Shot By Criminal Migrants, Trump Promises to “Flood” NYC with ICE Agents
Flanked by the head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and border czar Tom Homan, President Trump says he will pour ICE agents into sanctuary cities after the shooting of a Customs and Border Protection agent in New York City.
The President said he’s fed up with the city’s sanctuary laws and will now “flood” the area with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest people wherever they find them.
The horrific shooting – by an illegal with a long criminal record – unfolded at 11:51 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in Fort Washington Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department.
Video of the incident released by the Department of Homeland Security shows two men approach the 42-year-old officer on a moped, with a female companion pulling out a gun.
“The officer realized that he was being robbed and drew his service weapon in defense,” said New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The officer, who was shot in the face and arm just before midnight on Saturday, remained hospitalized and is expected to survive after exchanging gunfire with an undocumented migrant with a lengthy criminal record and outstanding arrest warrants.
The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, an undocumented migrant from the Dominican Republic, was also shot in the incident and detained after he went to an area hospital for medical treatment.
The second migrant criminal involved in the attempted robbery, Christhian Aybar-Berroa, 22, was nabbed by ICE agents Monday following the arrest of Nunez.
Nunez is accused of shooting the 42-year-old officer while Aybar-Berroa allegedly helped with the robbery, officials said.
“It’s a case that we will continue to work — that he was a part of this robbery on Saturday night — and hopefully he will face consequences for being a part of that,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a fiery news conference at Harlem Hospital.
A witness of the attack stated that she and the victim were “sitting on the rocks by the water when two subjects on a scooter drove up to them, dismounted the scooter, and approached them with a firearm drawn. The off-duty CBP officer responded by withdrawing his own firearm in self-defense. The CBP officer was shot in his right arm and left cheek. Thankfully, the officer is in stable condition at the hospital, Homeland Security said.
Tom Homan said he’s especially angry with the City Council and that he is no longer going to play nice with the mayor, or hope he can convince the City Council or the courts to let ICE agents operate on Rikers Island.
“Sanctuary cities get exactly what they don’t want — more agents in the community and more agents in the worksite. If we can’t arrest that bad guy in the safety and security of county jail, we’ll arrest him in the community,” Homan said, “and when we arrest him in the community, if he’s with others that are in the country illegally, they’re coming, too.”
Lengthy Criminal Records
Both of the suspects have extensive criminal records, including violent offences.
Aybar Berroa “illegally entered the United States on June 19, 2022, and was released into the country on interim parole pending his immigration hearing,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.
He then allegedly committed a litany of crimes in New York City, including arrests for 2nd degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and 4th degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.
“On June 12, 2025, Berroa pled guilty to petit larceny at the Bronx County Supreme Court. This plea was made in consolidation of all his previous arrests, and he was conditionally discharged and allowed to roam the streets of NYC,” it also said. “A judge ordered Berroa a final order of removal on January 3, 2023.”
Nunez was arrested eight times between March and April 2024 for grand larcenies. He’s also a suspect in at least four additional cases.
The pair is now expected to face federal charges in connection with the shooting.
The left has no respect for law enforcement They want the wetbacks here so they can have a stronger voter registration. The entire party is corrupted. I won’t knowingly do business with them. Democrats will stoop to any level to get power. MAGA!!!!
Trump promised to get rid of undocumented immigrant criminals. These guys are on his watch. Maybe if he quit going for photo ops by chasing farmworkers through the strawberry fields and focused on criminals, he could stop these robberies. Especially going after pedo’s like on the Epstein list he buried. How many more criminals and Epstein pedo rapists are out there. Why won’t he tell us?
Marty; you have no proof of a Democratic push for illegals to vote for them. Illegals can’t vote. Immigrants vote for your party too. Conservatives told us that.
Dunger you have no proof that illegal wetbacks didn’t vote in past elections. Commiecrats have fought in court for them to be allowed to vote. And Trump should keep chasing farm workers if they are here illegally. If you believe in enforcement of laws against other offenders why not enforce immigration laws? If they want to be here, why not apply to come legally? You idiots want criminals turned loose in the streets. I have proof. Look at the “woke” assholes who misapplied the laws from the bench or so called prosecutors office. But I know. You have a spin and justification for everything. If I were from another country and wanted to come here I would apply and come legally. And these shit head governors and mayors who try to block ICE are going to be prosecuted sooner or later. Can’t wait. Who knows? Your governor might get arrested.
I spell my name Danger. I will call you Suck until you spell it right. I, Danger, you, Suck.
You claim illegals voted in past elections, because you say I “have no proof that illegal wetbacks didn’t vote in past elections” Does that mean you believe pigs can fly because I did not prove that they don’t? Weird logic you have, but, for you, I can understand.
“Commiecrats have fought in court for them to be allowed to vote.” Find me a Communist in America, I think they claim 2Ok on a brag. That’s a small town in nowhere USA. Or do you mean MAGA Communism as platformed by Tucker C. Proof of Democrat court action for Federal voting, where, when, what type of vote: for best reality show perhaps? According to Google AI: “In summary, the claim that Democrats are fighting in court to allow undocumented immigrants to vote is inaccurate based on available information. There are instances where Democrats have opposed stricter voting laws, arguing that such measures could disenfranchise eligible citizens.” BUSTED
“And Trump should keep chasing farm workers if they are here illegally. If you believe in enforcement of laws against other offenders why not enforce immigration laws?” As far as I know, no one is against secure boarders and enforcement of our laws. That is NOT what Trump’s Dark State is doing. The Dark State’s Felon King is violating a number of laws using a 1798 Wartime act to allow his deportations voiding many elements of due process under the law. There is no way true Americans can condone having unmarked, masked, white men without warrants, disappear people to third-world, death-camp, gulags to be murdered on our dime. That is decidedly unpatriotic and against many foundational thoughts from our founders. He has been overruled, restricted, allowed, with many court cases still underway. It’s a clusterfuck and he will never come close to meeting his promise to rid us of 14 million bodies. Can’t do it, never could, you’ve been lied to, you understood.
But let’s get to priorities. We are spending billions to fix a misdemeanor that, under the law, is punishable by a $250 fine and up to six months in the pokey which I guarantee never happens. Average jail time is a month or less. That’s just a fact, Jack. So we are spending billions for a misdemeanor.
You say: “If they want to be here, why not apply to come legally? You idiots want criminals turned loose in the streets. I have proof. Look at the “woke” assholes who misapplied the laws from the bench or so called prosecutors office. But I know.” So, show us. You never do. You can’t. It’s just spew.
“And these shit head governors and mayors who try to block ICE are going to be prosecuted sooner or later. Can’t wait. Who knows? Your governor might get arrested.” Yeah, yeah, fear, revenge, and retribution of your Dark State. After Ruport twists your knickers, who’s next? TACO — Trump will bail on the Murdock case. He does not have the balls to testify. Next, Comey’s daughter will sue your fucking asses off. There is no proof in the firing and she was a top-notch prosecutor whose only crime was getting Epstein and that tweaked Trump having his best friend locked up. Course the guy strangely died on Trump’s watch too so who knows what the Dark State is capable of.
Dude, I keep saying that you may disagree with me, but I represent over 50% of the country so you better fucking learn how to work with me and like-minded liberals. Otherwise, it will just not end well for either of us. A house divided cannot stand. Quit being a Suck and embrace the Seth.
Dunger. You go suck
Hard-on: do you really think you advantage yourself or your cause by denigrating me?
Can’t you speak on topic at all?
Just third-grade school-yard taunts.
You may think you are building yourself up by tearing me down, but all can see that you can’t express anything on topic. You can’t disprove anything I say. You are impotent to do so. Weak tea. Yesterday’s garbage. Like the lower 17 on the Passaic River, useless from shore to shore. A superfund of the brain waiting to be capped,.
Well, got to get ready, Tis Chicago tonight and I have some of the best seats in the house. Gonna enjoy Newark’s Ironbound in all of it’s summer splendor for a leisurely outdoor patio dinner before where you will never even enter my thoughts as they are filled by 25 or 6 to 4.