Torres says the Bronx arrests expose "the deep rot that has consumed the agency"
Ritchie TorresU.S. representative for New York's 15th district, in a letter to the DHS inspector general
Rep. Ritchie Torres told the DHS inspector general that ICE agents chasing people with firearms drawn is extremely dangerous and that the two Bronx incidents show callous tactics against American citizens and deep rot in the agency.
“ICE agents chasing people with firearms drawn without being harassed or attacked is extremely dangerous. These two incidents exemplify the callous tactics used by this Administration against American citizens and exposes the deep rot that has consumed the agency.”
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Where this statement fits
Did ICE agents falsify records and testimony in the Bronx arrests of Angel Almonte and Jeury Concepcion?
On May 6, 2026, ICE agents arrested Angel Almonte, a Dominican immigrant, and Jeury Concepcion, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, in separate arrests in the Bronx. DHS said Concepcion was not arrested by ICE and that it does not arrest citizens by mistake, and government lawyers told a federal court that ICE positively identified Almonte through database checks before issuing his arrest warrant. On October 5, U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown ruled that the misidentification claims were baseless, that ICE issued an after-the-fact warrant containing false information, and that the officers gave false and misleading testimony. The question is whether ICE agents falsified records and testimony to justify the arrests.
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Press release from Rep. Ritchie Torres's office with his letter asking the DHS inspector general to investigate two ICE arrests in the Bronx.
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Torres wrote to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari asking for an investigation of videos of two ICE arrests in the Norwood section of the Bronx, one of them Concepcion's.
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He asked the inspector general to respond by May 22.
How this statement is classified
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether ICE agents falsified records and testimony to justify the arrests of Almonte and Concepcion. Torres calls the incidents examples of "the callous tactics used by this Administration against American citizens" and says they expose "the deep rot that has consumed the agency." That condemns the agents' conduct in the arrests, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which would fit a request for an investigation alone; he states conclusions.
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