US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday joined operations in New York City to arrest undocumented immigrants connected with crimes. She stressed her intention to push forward what President Donald Trump calls the largest deportation operation in US history.

"It's not a spectacle," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said of filming ICE raids. "This is our nation's law enforcement."

Secretary Kristi Noem was in New York City Tuesday morning, accompanying agents carrying out an immigration enforcement operation.  Noem, who was confirmed as

In a show of force aimed at quickly increasing arrests and generating publicity, the administration targeted the nation’s largest city, where sanctuary policies limit official cooperation with ICE.

President Donald Trump's top homeland security official joined officers as they carried out an immigration arrest in New York City on Tuesday, the latest effort to promote Trump's nationwide crackdown as enforcement has intensified in recent days.

New York is now one of the U.S. cities being targeted by federal officials as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. The local field office for the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement said in a post to X Tuesday morning that it "began conducting enhanced targeted operations in NYC to enforce US immigration law & preserve public safety & national security by removing criminal aliens from our communities.

Federal authorities descended on the Big Apple early Tuesday morning to carry out their first major deportation raids in the city as part of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and members of other agencies zeroed in on illegal migrants about a week after Trump was sworn into office.