DHS Secretary Noem Decries NYPD Not Cooperating With Federal Officers And Honoring ICE Detainers

Forbes Breaking News

During a press briefing on Monday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem spoke about the lack of cooperation between local law enforcement in New York City and federal agents.

Transcript

00:00Yes, sir.

00:25Absolutely not.

00:26What we're doing is we're targeting those individuals that are perpetuators of crimes

00:30in this country, those who have final removal orders, those who have undergone due process

00:35and are needing to be removed from this country.

00:37We will do that.

00:38The biggest problem we have here in this city is that they don't honor our detainers, is

00:42that they're releasing people out of the court system, out of jails, and we have detainers

00:47against them, and local law enforcement isn't cooperating with us to honor those so that

00:51we can get these individuals off the streets.

00:53So we're going to continue to do that work every day, but it would be much safer for

00:58law enforcement, much safer for the public, if we could do it in partnership with local

01:02law enforcement.

01:03And we do that across the country.

01:05In so many states, we have agreements with city police, with sheriffs, with local law enforcement

01:11who partner with us to make sure our officers can be safe while they do this work, and we

01:15can clean up communities that are victims of crime.

01:18Unfortunately, here in New York City, it's a different situation, because here, people

01:22play politics, and then you have innocent people get hurt.

01:25And that shouldn't happen anymore.

01:27Yes, ma'am.

01:28Yes, ma'am.

01:29Yes, ma'am.

01:34It depends on if you're talking about those who have charges against them, those who have

01:38pending charges, those who have final removal orders.

01:40Those all continue to be our focus.

Category

Transcript

Recommended