The US Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that it had caught a number of people it referred to as “illegal aliens” during Tuesday’s raid in Chinatown — one that drew the voiceferous wrath of New Yorkers who recorded the spectacle.
DHS said the operation was “a targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation” by ICE and its federal partners to take down a number of street vendors on Canal Street, with a focus “on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods.”
