Approximately 100 people in the New York City area were detained by federal authorities over the past week, according to The CITY.
A spokesperson for one of the agencies involved, Kenneth M. Heino of the New York Division of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, told the news agency that teams of federal agents had arrested around 100 people in New York City and the surrounding area by Tuesday evening.
Little is known about where many of those arrested are being detained, The City said. New York City-based immigration lawyers said they are struggling to locate many of them, and they fear the situation is only going to get worse as the Trump administration begins shipping people to far off sites.
Typically, people detained by ICE in New York City are sent to Orange County jail in Goshen, N.Y. where about 70 ICE detainees have been held in recent months, or the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg, Penn. Some are also taken to a warehouse-like lockup in Elizabeth, N.J., the news agency said.
Frank Tarentino, the DEA’s Special Agent in Charge, and one of the various federal agencies involved in the immigration efforts, said about 30 federal interagency teams are on patrol around the five boroughs, Westchester and Long Island. He declined to say how long the operation would continue.
