Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem blamed New York City’s “sanctuary city policies” for the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer over the weekend.

Noem said in a statement Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have “caught” a second suspect connected to the shooting early that morning.

Noem identified the individual as Christian Aybar-Berroa, an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic with a significant criminal record, and lamented that he had not been apprehended sooner.

“Christhian Aybar-Berroa, is an illegal from the Dominican Republic. He entered the country illegally in 2022 under the Biden Administration and was ordered for final removed in 2023 by an immigration judge,” Noem wrote in a

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