Four Mexican nationals unlawfully residing in the United States were indicted on May 2 for operating an international human smuggling network that transported hundreds of migrants weekly from Mexico, Central America, and South America through Canada into the northern United States for thousands of dollars per person. The defendants and their associates allegedly engaged in multiple high-speed vehicle chases with law enforcement along the U.S. northern border. The investigation was led by ICE Homeland Security Investigations in collaboration with U.S. Border Patrol and other federal agencies.

ICE arrested 38-year-old Ecuadorian national Marcia Lorena Bueno Guartatanga on May 1 in Cortlandt, New York. She had been convicted in October 2022 of acting to injure a child by enabling her husband's sexual abuse of her daughter, receiving a sentence of 95 days imprisonment and three years probation. She entered the United States without authorization and is held in ICE detention pending removal proceedings.

NYPD Assistant Chief Jason Savino reported that 37 members of Los Diablos de 42 (Little Devils of 42nd Street), a Venezuelan gang affiliated with Tren de Aragua, have accumulated over 240 combined arrests — averaging approximately six arrests per individual. The gang recruits members as young as 8 years old and has conducted coordinated attacks on NYPD officers in Times Square using makeshift weapons. Officials noted that despite hundreds of arrests and releases, none of the gang members have been turned over for deportation despite being in the country illegally.

Police arrested multiple individuals allegedly connected to the Tren de Aragua gang following a brawl in Times Square in which the group attacked officers after an alleged robbery attempt. One suspect was reportedly a 12-year-old described as a "ring leader" of the altercation. Several suspects were already wanted for a series of robberies in Central Park and were living at city-funded migrant shelters.

ICE arrested Orlando Duncan Da Silva Bain, a 19-year-old British citizen, in Niagara Falls, New York on May 7 after he misrepresented himself upon entry by failing to disclose his criminal record during the visa waiver program application process. His U.K. convictions include multiple offenses related to child exploitation and endangerment. He is detained pending removal proceedings.

ICE officers arrested Jeremias Benites Vasquez, a 39-year-old Salvadoran citizen, on May 14, 2025, in Brentwood, New York, after he illegally re-entered the United States following a prior 2009 removal order. Benites was convicted on March 20, 2025, of sexual abuse of a victim less than 13 years old where the defendant was 21 or older. He is currently in ICE custody awaiting removal to El Salvador.

ICE and federal law enforcement partners apprehended 206 individuals during a week-long targeted enforcement operation in the New York City area from April 6-12, 2025. Of those arrested, 121 had significant criminal convictions or faced charges including murder, assault, sex crimes, and drug trafficking. The operation targeted members of transnational criminal organizations including MS-13, Tren de Aragua, Sureños, and 18th Street gangs, with many arrests occurring after local jurisdictions declined to honor immigration detainers.

ICE apprehended Noel Hernandez Leon, a 50-year-old Mexican national, upon his release from Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York on April 17, 2025. Hernandez had been convicted of first and second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in Brooklyn in 1996 and sentenced to 20 years to life; an immigration judge had previously ordered his removal in 1999. He is currently detained at Buffalo Federal Detention Facility awaiting deportation to Mexico.

ICE removed Miguel Saldivar-Moran, a 45-year-old Mexican national, to Mexico on April 29, 2025. Saldivar-Moran had been convicted of sexual abuse crimes against a child in Suffolk County, New York in 2019, and had illegally entered the United States in 1997. An immigration judge ordered his removal in 2016, and ICE arrested him in April 2025 upon his release from New York state custody.

ICE filed immigration detainers against two individuals in the country illegally: a 24-year-old Honduran man facing five counts of attempted murder following an alleged shooting spree in Memphis that injured multiple people, and a separate individual arrested in New York City charged with rape and grand larceny for allegedly assaulting a corpse on a subway train. Both individuals had detainers lodged against them to allow ICE to take custody following any criminal proceedings.