The Trump administration has significantly increased its immigration enforcement, issuing over 6,000 requests to New York City authorities to transfer undocumented immigrant offenders to federal officials, according to the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday. This move is part of a broader strategy to ramp up deportations.

These actions represent a 400% rise in such requests compared to the previous Biden administration, as per the DHS. The Trump administration is directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts toward sanctuary cities, including NYC.

Despite these efforts, NYC’s so-called “sanctuary politicians” have complied with very few of these detainer requests, according to officials. This lack of cooperation allegedly results in violent offenders being released back into the community, as noted by the DHS in a post on X.

“Every New Yorker should know: their sanctuary politicians are working against law enforcement and RELEASING criminal illegal aliens with prior convictions for rape, murder, and drug trafficking back into their communities,” DHS said Wednesday.

“ICE will continue to enforce the law and protect American neighborhoods,” DHS added.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tore into Eric Adams on Monday over the city’s sanctuary policies, blaming him for the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer by an illegal immigrant who had a lengthy rap sheet.

Adams has said he wants to change sanctuary laws in New York, but he’s constrained by the city council.

Dominican illegal migrant Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, had already received a deportation order before he allegedly ambushed the officer and his female companion in Fort Washington Park late Saturday, Noem said.

“There’s absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City,” Noem told reporters from Harlem Hospital, where she and President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said they met with the wounded 42-year-old agent’s family.

“Make no mistake, this officer is in the hospital today, fighting for his life, because of the policies of the mayor of the city and the City Council and the people that were in charge of keeping the public safe refused to do so,” she said. “When I look at what Mayor Adams has done to New York City, it breaks my heart to see the families that have suffered because of his policies.”