New DHS boss Kristi Noem joins feds nabbing kidnappers, murderers in NYC’s first major immigration raids under Trump deportation initiative

( NYPost )

New Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined heavily armed federal authorities early Tuesday for the first deportation raids under President Trump’s crackdown — nabbing violent illegal immigrants including kidnappers and murderers.

Noem, 53, shared images of her wearing a protective ICE vest as she embedded with officers from numerous federal agencies in hitting targets, starting with early morning raids in the Bronx.

The first arrests involved migrants with warrants for terrifying crimes including burglary, menacing, kidnapping, extortion and various crimes of violence, police sources told The Post. 

The focus was just on “getting the bad guys out of the country,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News — saying the dawn operation targeted “murderers, kidnappers, and individuals charged of assault and burglary.”

That included a Dominican national with an Interpol red notice wanted for a double homicide in the Dominican Republic, Fox said. 

Noem shared footage of one of the first raids, saying it showed “a criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges.”

“Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets.” she wrote defiantly.

“We are doing this right – doing exactly what President @realDonaldTrump promised the American people – making our streets safe.”

One raid early Tuesday woke residents of an Ogden Avenue apartment building in the Bronx with a loud boom, neighbors who saw a suspect being pulled out told The Post.

“When they brought him out, he had shackles on his wrists to his feet,” said a woman who lives in the building but did not want to be named.

“His face had a real angry expression. It was strange. I’ve lived here many years and I’ve never seen him come in or out of the building.”

Neighbors said they’d seen a woman and several children in the raided apartment, but not the man who was taken away in cuffs.

“Everybody in the building is just asking who else are they coming for? How are they picking the people? Is it just people who have been in the system, who have been arrested? A lot of people don’t have their papers here and there is a lot of fear,” she said.

“We need to know how they are picking the people that they are coming and getting.”

Another neighbor called it “a big operation” led by Homeland Security officers, with the metal door to the raided apartment smashed in with a crowbar.

“They’re going to get due process. It doesn’t matter if, it doesn’t matter what crimes, there or they’re here illegally, they’re going to get due process so it’s okay. I’m not opposed. Whatever they allegedly did,” the neighbor said, noting the family living in the apartment that was raided consisted of a man, a woman and several children.

Under the watchful eye of border czar Tom Homan, the feds have been rounding up hundreds of criminal migrants daily in sanctuary cities nationwide since Trump assumed office.

Agents have hit Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and New Orleans as part of the effort to ship lawbreakers out of the country.

Homan warned on ABC News last Sunday that anyone in the country illegally is “on the table” for deportation.

“You’re going to see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide, as we open up the aperture,” he said. “Right now, it’s concentrating on public safety threats [and] national security threats. That’s a smaller population.

“So we’re going to do this on a priority [basis], that’s President Trump’s promise. But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”

Trump loosened restrictions on how immigration officers can approach deportation raids, tossing out bans on searching churches, courthouses, and other “sensitive” sites that illegal migrants have historically holed up in to avoid landing on the feds’ radar.

Mayor Eric Adams said last week ahead of the crackdown that city officials would “coordinate” with ICE on handling migrant criminals, but they were still analyzing Trump’s new rule allowing raids in “sensitive” areas.

Adams has tried to assuage the worries of immigrant New Yorkers who are afraid of getting caught up in indiscriminate raids.

The NYPD sent out an internal memo obtained by The Post reminding cops they can partner with ICE on criminal investigations, but not federal deportations, which are civil matters under the city’s sanctuary status.

ICE said it made 1,179 arrests and lodged 853 detainers on Monday after it carried out 956 arrests and issued 554 detainers on Sunday leading up to Tuesday’s Big Apple action.