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   From: mshepherd@aamco.com   
      
   Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blamed New York   
   officials and “sanctuary city policies” for the shooting of an off-duty US   
   Customs and Border Protection officer in an apparent robbery gone wrong   
   over the weekend.   
      
   The 42-year-old officer is in stable condition and expected to survive,   
   officials said Monday. There is no indication he was targeted because of   
   his employment, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said   
   Sunday.   
      
   The officer, who was not in uniform, was sitting with a woman in Riverside   
   Park, beneath the George Washington Bridge, when two men approached on a   
   moped before midnight Sunday. One of the men approached the officer, who   
   realized he was being robbed and drew his service weapon, Tisch said.   
      
   They both fired their weapons, and the officer was shot in the face and   
   arm, officials said Sunday. The perpetrator was wounded before he got back   
   on the moped and drove away, police said.   
      
   Authorities identified Miguel Mora, a 21-year-old undocumented immigrant   
   with an extensive criminal past, as a person of interest. He arrived at a   
   Bronx hospital with gunshot wounds to the groin and leg, and was taken   
   into custody, according to Tisch.   
      
   After the attack, the New York City Police Department asked hospitals in   
   the area to be on the lookout for patients with gunshot wounds, which led   
   them to Mora, according to senior law enforcement officials briefed on the   
   investigation.   
      
   After a search, Mora’s alleged accomplice, who is also undocumented, was   
   arrested Monday, Noem said. Cristian Aybar Berroa also has a history of   
   criminal activity, she said.   
      
   It is unclear whether Mora or Berroa have attorneys.   
      
   Federal charges against both men are expected, officials said.   
      
   Mora entered the country illegally through Arizona in 2023, officials   
   said. Berroa illegally entered the country on June 19, 2022, a Monday   
   release from the Department of Homeland Security said.   
      
   Mora’s criminal history includes charges for assault on a pregnant woman   
   and a stabbing charge in January, two senior law enforcement officials   
   briefed on the investigation told CNN. Mora was wanted for robbing a pawn   
   shop in Massachusetts where guns were stolen, and authorities are looking   
   into whether the semi-automatic weapon used in the attack over the weekend   
   is from the pawn shop, the officials said.   
      
   Berroa’s criminal history includes charges of reckless endangerment and   
   felony grand larceny stemming from incidents in 2023 and 2024. After being   
   arrested in April of last year, he was released “despite an active ICE   
   detainer,” the release said.   
      
   In June of this year, Berroa pleaded guilty to petit larceny at the Bronx   
   County Supreme Court, the release added.   
      
   “This plea was made in consolidation of all his previous arrests, and he   
   was conditionally discharged and allowed to roam the streets of NYC,” the   
   release said.   
      
   Noem blamed “sanctuary city policies” for the shooting, citing a list of   
   previous arrests and warrants against Mora.   
      
   “He was arrested four different times in New York City, and because of the   
   mayor’s policies and sanctuary city policies, was released back to do harm   
   to people and to individuals living in this city,” she said.   
      
   Noem called on leaders of sanctuary cities nationwide to change their   
   policies. When asked what policies would have prevented the shooting, Noem   
   did not provide specifics.   
      
   “This individual should have been deported and never been in this   
   country,” she said.   
      
   President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, echoed Noem’s statements.   
      
   “Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals,” Homan said Monday. “Full   
   stop.”   
      
   At a separate news conference Monday, New York Mayor Eric Adams said he is   
   not responsible for the “revolving-door criminal justice system” that kept   
   Mora on the streets.   
      
   “I just carry out the rules,” Adams said.   
      
   Adams said he would welcome more federal agents being deployed to his   
   city, as long as they are focused on dangerous individuals and not   
   “everyday individuals who are trying to complete the path to be a   
   citizen.”   
      
   The mayor previously said he visited the wounded officer Sunday in the   
   hospital, where he was recovering with family members by his side who   
   thanked the city for its response.   
      
   “I am extremely angry that we have a customs border patrol officer that is   
   in the hospital because that person should have not been on our streets,”   
   Adams said Monday.   
      
   The officer suffered a broken jaw and a bullet is lodged in his throat,   
   but he is alert and has been communicating through hand gestures, senior   
   law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told CNN.   
      
   In a social media post Sunday afternoon, Trump said the shooting was   
   evidence of Democrats’ failures to secure the border.   
      
   “The CBP Officer bravely fought off his attacker, despite his wounds,   
   demonstrating enormous Skill and Courage,” Trump said.   
      
   Federal officials have warned of attacks on agents involved in immigration   
   enforcement, with many agents choosing to cover their faces with masks – a   
   move that has drawn scrutiny from members of the public and law   
   enforcement experts.   
      
   “If that’s a tool that the men and women of ICE (use) that keeps   
   themselves and their families safe, then I will allow it,” the acting   
   director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons said   
   Sunday.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/us/off-duty-border-patrol-officer-shot-ice-   
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