The targeted raids being conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) have continued since the very first day President Trump re-occupied the White House.
The daily exploits of the ICE Agents have started to take on a certain mystique.
Nothing magical, but more like the hometown frontline of the football team that grinds play after play, inch by inch, constantly moving forward and taking ground from the enemy.
The enemy has been named. Wow — I think I’ll take another shot of that feeling and type that one out again.
THE ENEMY HAS BEEN NAMED. That is a far more emotional statement than I expected, until I typed it.
And this morning, the enemy has been captured. More on that in just a moment.
President Trump’s promises have been kept — the Executive Orders have been signed, the Agents have been fielded, the DEI BS has been scraped, and the mission is front and center.
Arrest, after arrest, after arrest. Murderers, Rapists, Child traffickers and sexual predators, drug dealers; they have all finally met something that the Biden administration spent 4 years pretending to be about, but never served up:
JUSTICE.
This morning President Trump’s new Secretary of Homeland Security accompanied ICE Agents as they conducted more targeted raids in the Bronx.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joins first ICE raids in NYC as feds pluck ‘dirtbags’ off the streets https://t.co/o0Z8Q2y9in pic.twitter.com/smG1c9Kqr9
— New York Post (@nypost) January 28, 2025
Riding in an armored SWAT vehicle, kitted out with a vest, and bouncing from location to location with the drop teams, Noem posted about 5am that the agents and officers involved were “doing this right”, according to a report in the New York Post:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal authorities Tuesday for the first deportation raids in New York City under President Trump’s clampdown — lauding ICE for getting “dirtbags off the streets.”
The newly confirmed DHS secretary was driven between various locations in an amored Bearcat SWAT vehicle while boasting about the successful pre-dawn operation on X and sharing images of herself wearing a protective ICE vest, surrounded by heavily armed officers.
“We are doing this right — doing exactly what President @realDonaldTrump promised the American people — making our streets safe. Live this AM from NYC. I’m on it,” Noem wrote just before 5 a.m.
Arresting some criminal aliens this morning in NYC – thank you to the brave officers involved. @DHSgov @ICEgov @SecretService @DEAHQ @USMarshalsHQ @NYPDSpecialops pic.twitter.com/uaRxFCvh5h
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 28, 2025
And then… it happened.
One of the raid teams entered an apartment building in the Bronx — right across from an elementary school — and did their thing.
A few minutes later Agents walked a cuffed and shackled gang leader out and into a waiting vehicle.
They had just captured Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, the 25 year old leader of the Tren de Aragua gang that infamously took over the apartment building in Aurora, Colorado months ago.
BREAKING: Earlier this morning in the Bronx, ICE raided and arrested the Tren de Aragua gang leader behind takeover of the Aurora apartments.
pic.twitter.com/GUFJ7cUGiv— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 28, 2025
BREAKING: Tren de Aragua Ringleader behind Aurora, CO apartment building invasion arrested in NYC by ICE pic.twitter.com/rVr51IYaHB
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 28, 2025
It is thought that the person in the following video, taken and shared this morning by Sec. of Homeland Security Noem was in fact Pacheco.
Just now.
Enforcement operation in NYC. Criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges is now in custody – thanks to @ICE.
Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets. pic.twitter.com/fRpJBdmqSl
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 28, 2025
The violent ringleader had been caught once before, on the surveillance cameras inside the apartment building when the gang took over the building.
But now he is finally in the hands of authorities, according to another article by the New York Post:
A violent Tren de Aragua ringleader sought in an infamous, caught-on-camera break-in in Aurora, Colo., was nabbed Tuesday in a dramatic pre-dawn raid in New York City — across from an elementary school, sources said.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, was taken into custody as part of the Trump administration’s first promised immigration raids in the Big Apple, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
He was caught by heavily armed Homeland Security Investigations officers who stormed an Ogden Avenue apartment building in The Bronx in the early hours, the sources said. The building is across the street from PS 11, a k a the Highbridge School.
The gangbanger, who sources described as a leader of the vicious Venezuelan gang in Aurora, had a warrant out on him for a slew of charges — including kidnapping, burglary and menacing – in Colorado.
Pacheco was allegedly among the heavily armed suspects who were caught on surveillance video forcing their way into an apartment in Aurora, just outside Denver, in August.
The terrifying footage quickly thrust the suburb into the national spotlight as it showed that the area had become a hotbed of Tren de Aragua activity, with gang members taking over multiple apartment complexes in the city of 400,000.
It wasn’t immediately clear when Pacheco came to the Big Apple.
His apprehension Tuesday surfaced as President Trump’s new Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, shared footage of a man – who she called a “criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges” — being led in cuffs from an apartment building during one of the Big Apple raids.
“Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets,” Noem wrote alongside the clip.
“When they brought him out, he had shackles on his wrists to his feet,” said one woman who lives in the building.
The excitement on social media is contagious, with the old videos showing the apartment takeover being posted alongside the photos of the gang leader in an orange jumpsuit — firmly in custody.
| JUST ANNOUNCED: ICE took down a top Tren de Aragua (TdA) ringleader in NYC after a surprise raid with heavily armed DEA and Homeland Security agents.
This thug helped orchestrate the Aurora, Colorado apartment takeovers, all thanks to Biden’s open border.
Oh, what a… pic.twitter.com/BP253upZgb
— Hank (@HANKonX) January 28, 2025
One popular X account shared the video and jumpsuit picture alongside commentary.
‘George’ pointed out that it was the Biden-Harris wide open border and backwards immigration policies that brought him into the country, and allowed him to spend months freely engaging in multiple violent crimes on American streets.
BREAKING: One of the Tren de Aragua ringleaders behind the Aurora apartment takeovers has just been busted by ICE in New York City.
Heavily armed DEA agents and Homeland Security officers conducted a surprise raid early this morning in a Bronx apartment and caught him.
The… pic.twitter.com/UpqouafZ0W
— George (@BehizyTweets) January 28, 2025
But, no more. Alongside now thousands of violent offenders who have been rolled up by ICE, Pacheco is now on a path that will take him out of the United States, and back where he belongs — not here.
Another day, another update for the daily tally that has become tradition for ICE:
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 28, 2025
We all knew the Biden regime was corrupt, inept, and taking us down a dangerous path.
But to see the turnaround happen as fast as it has…
To see JUSTICE dealt out literally overnight, and then every subsequent day since then…
It is mind blowing. And I pray they keep blowing our minds with all this JUSTICE.
God’s Word says, “When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.” (Proverbs 11:10)
I don’t know about you… but I’m feeling a lot more joy and gladness lately, as a direct result of the righteous governance of President Trump.
The righteous are definitely having a better time at it right now, and the wicked are seeing a downturn with justice no longer withheld.
Lord, please let it continue; for Your glory, and our blessing — Amen.