A man has been injured after being shot by an agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an operation carried out this Thursday in the New York neighborhood of Marble Hill. The injured person was evacuated to a local hospital, where he remains conscious and under medical supervision.
The incident took place around 4:00 PM (local time) in a residential area located between Upper Manhattan and the southern tip of the Bronx. The New York Police Department (NYPD) specified in a statement that its agents did not participate in the episode nor were they present when the shots were fired. Meanwhile, the newspaper "The New York Times," citing sources familiar with the investigation, indicated that the intervention was carried out by agents of the federal immigration agency.
The incident has generated a strong wave of criticism among municipal and state officials. The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, denounced on social media that the agents surrounded the man and a five-year-old child who was inside his car before firing "multiple shots." Although it is believed that the minor did not suffer physical harm, the mayor described what happened as "unconscionable and extremely serious" and announced that he would demand from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the halt of all ICE operations in the city. "I will not sit idly by while ICE agents terrorize our communities," Mamdani emphasized.
In the same vein, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, called on federal authorities for "a complete and transparent explanation" regarding the circumstances of the shooting in order to clarify the facts. For her part, the chairwoman of the City Council, Julie Menin, demanded quick answers and expressed her deep concern over "the immense anxiety and uncertainty" that ICE's actions generate among the immigrant population of the city.
According to the cited New York newspaper, this episode is part of a context of intensification of the operational pressure of ICE across the country under the Administration of Donald Trump, which has led to an increase in arrests resulting from traffic controls. Since the inauguration in January 2025, at least two dozen people have been shot by federal immigration agents, resulting in six deaths, three of them U.S. citizens.
The records compiled by the Deportation Data Project, an initiative driven by the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles —which compiles and disseminates public and anonymous datasets on the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws— indicate that the arrests made by this federal agency in the state of New York increased from 865 in April to 1,552 in July.