The telephone calls of tenants interested in an apartment complex woke the Bronx building manager around 6 in the morning on Tuesday.
“They were telling me that Ice was there,” said the buildings manager, who refused to be identified, NBC News.
New York was one of the last cities where the application of immigration and customs made raids, calling the attention of residents and business owners who were surprised by early morning activity. The raids in several parts of New York City are part of the greatest impulse of the Trump administration to boost deportations and make them very visible, pointing to the main cities and publishing the actions.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, announced on the social networks that it was present when ICE officers and other application agencies arrested at least an undocumented person in the Apartamentos building in the Bronx Highbridge section.
NBC News spoke with seven workers and business owners in the area on Tuesday morning on Tuesday morning when New York City Police officers remained in place.
Most of them were surprised and said that while the crime has been a problem in the neighborhood, immigration application actions are rare.
“I think it’s fine if they need to arrest someone because they committed a crime, but I worry that with ICE, they can also arrest others who have not done something wrong,” an owner of a 28 -year -old business, who asked him what his name It is not used for fear, he said in Spanish.
According to the data of the Furman Center of the University of New York, which investigates housing and urban policies, the rate of serious crimes in Highbridge is higher than the figure of the entire city.
Although municipal and state laws prevent the New York Police from being involved in the application of the Civil Immigration Law, the Police Department is part of the National Security Research Task Force, which refers to Violations of Federal Criminal Law.
As part of the task force, police officers were present for the “criminal application action” on early Tuesday. They said that the undocumented person who was arrested was sought under suspicion of serious crimes, including kidnapping, assault and robbery.
Mayor Eric Adams said that the immigration application operation was directed by the Department of National Security and supported by other federal agencies, as well as by the New York Police.
“We will not hesitate to partner with the federal authorities to take violent criminals to justice, as we have done for years,” Adams said in a statement. “Our commitment to protect residents respectful of our city’s law, both citizens and immigrants, remain unwavering.”

The news reverberated throughout the city, which houses a large number of immigrants, including newly arrived migrants.
Many recent migrants are taking a temporary shelter at the Roosevelt hotel, in the center of Manhattan, near Times Square.
Isabel Miranda, 39, a Colombian mother of two children who has taken refuge at the hotel for a few weeks, said her youngest daughter, who is 3 years old, told her to fear the police.
“It makes you desperate; you go out, and look at us as if we were criminals who came here to destroy the country, and that is not the case,” Miranda said in his native Spanish. “We also contribute because we work hard and do hard work.”
When asked if he cares about deportations, Miranda said: “All I ask is that my children remain safe, because I can’t return to Colombia.”

Recent numbers shared by the Trump administration show that approximately half of those that ICE have recently arrested have no criminal record.
Ihan Forero, an 8 -year -old boy from Colombia who has been in the United States for six months, returned from school with his mother. When asked what President Donald Trump thought while standing out of the Roosevelt hotel, he replied: “Fear. … It has a cold heart. “
Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, a non -profit organization advocated for the rights of immigrants in the state, condemned application actions such as “an advertising bombardment” of the Department of National Security, freeing photos and videos of Noem Wearting Armor as body armor. He presided over the operation of multipleGencies in the Bronx.
“It doesn’t matter how the Trump administration revolves this application, it is not about public security, it is about instilling fear in our immigrant communities. At this time, it does not seem that mass incursions have been made in New York City,” he said Awawdeh in a statement.