New York Released 7,000 Illegal Alien Criminals Without Notifying ICE
DHS told New York Attorney General Letitia James, “HAND ‘EM OVER.”
The New York Post reported that New York has released 7,000 illegal alien criminals in 2025 without notifying ICE.
Those illegal aliens include murderers, kidnappers, and a man who threatened a cop with a machete.
The machete man had already been kicked out of America eight times.
From the report:
The rap sheets behind the rogue’s gallery include 29 homicides, thousands of assaults and hundreds of burglaries, robberies, drug offenses, weapons offenses and sexual predatory offenses, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Monday.
All of them were protected by state and local sanctuary laws that dramatically restrict how local authorities can communicate with ICE, DHS says.
“Virtually all Americans agree that people like this should be swiftly removed from the United States when they leave New York’s custody and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens,” a demand letter penned by acting ICE Director Todd Lyons sent to the AG’s office Monday.
Under @KathyHochul New York has refused to honor @ICEgov detainers and RELEASED back onto New York’s streets 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since January 20.
The crimes of these aliens include:
-29 homicides
-2,509 assaults
-207 sexual predatory offenses
-199 burglaries
-305…— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) December 1, 2025
Thankfully, immigration officials have picked up a few violent criminals.
Vyacheslav Danilovich Kim was convicted of “traveling to have sex with a girl whom he believed was 13 years old.”
He only received a sentence of time served and was released on probation in February 2023.
Probation officers would not work with ICE to detain him.
The officials caught up with Kim. He’s been arrested and deported.
Others include:
Steven Daniel Henriquez Galicia, 25, a Dominican national who entered the US illegally in 2016, was arrested in the Bronx last year for attempted murder after he allegedly opened fire outside an apartment building. A judge let him go on cashless bail — despite the Bronx District Attorney asking for hold him on $300,000 bond. He was nabbed by ICE on Sept. 20.
Anderson Smith Satuye Martinez, 21, a Crips gang member and Honduran national with a prior assault conviction, was busted Aug. 19 for criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. Despite an ICE detainer lodged against him, he was also released on cashless bail. ICE picked him up on Sept. 11 in the Bronx.
This morning, DHS told New York Attorney General Letitia James, “HAND ‘EM OVER.”
“New York City’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since January 20,” the agency wrote on X. “There are another 7,000 still in the custody of a New York jurisdiction with an active detainer.”
DHS added: “We are calling on NY Attorney General Letitia James to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring our ICE arrest detainers. It’s common sense.”
HAND ‘EM OVER!
New York City’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since January 20. There are another 7,000 still in the custody of a New York jurisdiction with an active detainer.
We are calling on NY Attorney General… pic.twitter.com/T5kg9Ggh0c
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 2, 2025
There are 7,169 criminal illegal aliens in New York City jails. New York City sanctuary politicians need to STOP playing politics and start protecting their citizens.
"We’re seeing a revolving door of justice. These criminal illegal aliens are exiting the jails and going back… pic.twitter.com/Zvld3iFHdX
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 1, 2025
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Need to start playing hard ball with these Governers who obstruct the law. Start locking them up! Once they understand that their actions have consequences we MIGHT see fewer playing games??
Nah. Instead ‘lock them in’ with the criminal aliens by establishing CBP checkpoints briefly detaining every vehicle ferry/train/aircraft departing/entering New York within 100 miles of the border (which includes oceans) with particular attention to NYC. Sucks that there will be delays for everyone else while each occupant of any mode of transport is providing their ID and undergoing a brief questioning before being allowed to proceed.
Huh? NY is exercising its constitutional right to do this. There are no grounds for locking anyone up over it.
New York State and New York City have the constitutional right to illegally release convicted criminals so that federal law enforcement can’t uphold THEIR constitutional duty?
Please cite the text in the Constitution that enables this.
There was nothing illegal about the release. And yes, they have the constitutional right to refuse federal detainer requests, and all other requests for assistance. it’s protected by the tenth amendment. There is no tenth amendment right that is more solidly based than this one. There is literally no dispute about this, and hasn’t been for over two centuries.
Well, first thing ya know Mamdani’s a millionaire
Kin folk said, “Mamdani move away from there”
Said, “New York City’s the place ya oughta be”
So he loaded up the truck and moved by golly!
Subways, handouts, illegal alien criminals everywhere
Does he have a cement pond and one of those fancy eatin’ tables?
The “finger licking good” table, you mean…
Noting that (immigration status aside) these are all criminals (or they wouldn’t be in jail) isn’t this a textbook example of cutting off your nose to spite your face?
If these trouble makers were all vanished from NYC there might be less pressure on the illegals who have only violated immigration laws.
Democrats are the Fifth Column.
I’m all for releasing them next year, but only into the International Debutante’s Ball with instructions to have a real good time.
Avoid NYC at all costs, it could save your life.
Everyone involved should be facing federal charges.
“ The machete man had already been kicked out of America eight times.”
The ones that come back a second or more time oughta be subject to sudden onset lead poisoning. Hoping that phrase passes muster with the censors. .
They are subject to felony detainer requests, if the US attorney there is willing to file them.
Amen
And this is why conservatives have gone full ‘deport them all’.
Democrats won’t even allow violent criminals to be deported.
So screw them, ALL of the illegals go.
I think it is time to rethink the strategy. Instead of dragging democrat governors and mayors and AGs and sanctuary cities, instead of dragging them kicking and screaming over to the deport side, say instead:
“I get it, you have your priorities, your morals and values. So we will ignore all the illegal criminals in your jurisdiction. But until such time as you co-operate with federal law and enforcement, we will be withholding funds and equipment and training for your jurisdiction. Anything that can be used to pay for services for non-citizens – schools, food, housing, medical, etc. will henceforth be funded only by local taxes and revenues.
“oh, and don’t be surprised to find extra federal security at travel hubs inside your jurisdiction or roadside checks just outside (only for those leaving, of course).
“Have a nice a day, and thank you for your attention in this matter.”
Another goalpost ripped up and chucked down field. We’ve had to bear progressive talking points about how the vast majority of illegal aliens aren’t criminals, and that it’d be wrong to deport such “non-criminal” illegal aliens. The implication being that progressives wouldn’t continue granting sanctuary to criminal / felon illegal aliens. Welp…
They’re all criminals, it’s just a matter of degree. Trump told them he was targeting hard core criminals… first. The left is shielding them so they don’t get to whine and complain when their maid’s abuela is sent packing.
At this point, hold New York City voters responsible. They voted for Hochul and more recently Mamdani. It appears that only by learning some hard, mean lessons, will New Yorkers wake up and smell the coffee they brewed themselves.
Luckily, the New Mayor will straighten this all out tout de suite.
Next time anyone complains about ICE and Border Patrol doing mass deployment, then it’s time to point out that if they simply honored detainer requests for the really bad criminals, that would keep those officers busy enough that they wouldn’t have time to go after the people who merely came illegally. However, if you have to surge officers to deal with a State or city that refuses to cooperate, you deport EVERYONE those officers come across regardless of how long they’ve been here or now many crimes they’ve committed while here.
How is this legal? Doesn’t it seem like someone should go to prison for this?
It certainly seems like it. Kind of like how the Minnesota governor funding terrorism should put someone in jail. And Bill Clinton selling pardons should put him in jail. And…
States are separate sovereigns and are not required to cooperate with ‘requests’ which is what an ICE Detainer is in a legal sense. Where ICE presents an arrest warrant issued by an Art 2 Judge/Magistrate then they would be required to comply and could be legally compelled.
The design of our system didn’t contemplate that State leadership would be so irresponsible as to release criminal aliens into the street instead of turning them over to ICE. One way to fix this is creating additional Magistrate positions to do nothing but issue warrants for aliens when Homeland Security produces name and sufficient evidence to procure one. For an alien serving a sentence in State Prison/Jail who doesn’t have permission to be in the USA it would seem a low threshold to get an arrest warrant but the issue is the current narrow pipe to accommodate the ‘flow’ or perhaps deluge more accurately describes the increased warrant workload.
s/Art 2/Art 3/
Of course it’s legal. States have the constitutional right to refuse to assist the federal government.
It is time the DOJ arrests the specific Judges, DAs, or police that let these illegals out without handing them to ICE. There is likely a Federal Law that makes this a felony. If the Federal Judge throws the case out then it will show the Federal Judge is corrupt.
Not only is there no such federal law, there can’t be. Any such law would be unconstitutional. The states have a fundamental constitutional right to refuse to assist the federal government in its goals. Congress has no authority to compel the states to assist it. This is basic to our federal system, and has been used by the states and upheld by the courts for over two centuries.