""You will see us making those criminal arrests to make New York safe again. It's definitely intelligence driven, it's not random. We aren't pulling people off the street. There was a specific reason based on criminal intelligence and criminal activity that we showed up on Canal Street," acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News on Wednesday morning."
"On Tuesday, a large law enforcement presence was seen on Canal Street, a prominent hub for shopping in Lower Manhattan, with ICE and federal partners from multiple agencies conducting a "targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation" that was "focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods," Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on Tuesday. Vendors were seen packing up their tables and attempting to flee the area, which is known for merchants selling designer knockoffs, New York ABC station WABC reported."
""The nine arrested, their rap sheets are long," Lyons told Fox News. "Forgery, possession of drugs, drug trafficking, robbery, assault. These are criminal aliens that were being targeted. We do these based on criminal intelligence and that's what we had.""
Federal agents from ICE and multiple federal partners conducted a targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation on Canal Street in Manhattan's Chinatown focused on criminal activity related to selling counterfeit goods. Vendors were seen packing up and attempting to flee as agents executed the operation. Nine people were arrested; authorities said their records included forgery, drug possession and trafficking, robbery and assault. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said arrests were based on criminal intelligence and were not random. Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described the operation as focused on counterfeit sales. Store owners had complained about retail crime, and the action contrasts with Border Patrol deployments in other cities.
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