U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies carried out a raid in the Bronx early Tuesday morning, detaining at least one immigrant wanted on charges including kidnapping, assault and burglary, officials said. 

In a statement, an ICE spokesperson said the agency, "along with federal partners including the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service, began conducting enhanced targeted operations today in New York to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.”

Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem, who took part in the operation, posted photos and videos of the scene to X showing one person being led away by ICE agents.

“Just now. Enforcement operation in NYC. Criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges is now in custody - thanks to @ICE,” Noem wrote shortly after 6 a.m.

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday afternoon said he was aware of the operation, adding that the city coordinated with federal partners to carry out the raid.

“Beforehand, I directed the NYPD to coordinate with DHS' Homeland Security Investigations and other federal law enforcement agencies — as allowed by law — to conduct a targeted operation to arrest an individual connected with multiple violent crimes, both here in New York and in Aurora, Colorado, including burglary, kidnapping, extortion, firearms possession, menacing with a firearm, crime of violence, and other charges,” the mayor said in a statement.

“As I have repeatedly said, we will not hesitate to partner with federal authorities to bring violent criminals to justice — just as we have done for years,” he added. "Our commitment to protecting our city's law-abiding residents, both citizens and immigrants, remains unwavering."

In its own statement, the NYPD said it "does not engage in civil immigration enforcement, assist in any manner with civil immigration enforcement, or allow any Department resources to be used in connection with civil immigration enforcement."

Police sources, however, confirmed that NYPD members on a Homeland Security Investigations task force focused on criminal probes took part in Tuesday's enforcement effort.

Asked about the raid after an unrelated event, Gov. Kathy Hochul said there have “always been ICE raids in the state of New York, even in the past.” 

“I mean, this is not a new dynamic. I think there's more attention on them, but ICE has come in before when they have identified individuals who are part of gangs or committed serious crimes, and that is my understanding of what happened in the Bronx today, that they actually have names of people,” Hochul said.

“My understanding is that they had specific names of people who committed crimes, serious offenders, and those are exactly the people that we want removed from the state of New York,” she added.

Tuesday's raid came a week after Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, told NY1 mass deportations would be taking place across the city as part of President Donald Trump's promised immigration crackdown.

Malliotakis praised the actions taken Tuesday in a statement. 

"I thank President Donald Trump, Border Czar Tom Homan, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem for their leadership and wasting no time to initiate the removal of dangerous, violent foreign criminals and gangs from New York City streets,” her statement read, in part.

Meanwhile, New York state Attorney General Letitia James acknowledged ICE's recent activity across the city, while warning the agency not to overstep its powers. 

"I am monitoring the situation to ensure our laws are being respected and people's rights are not being violated. We have sent guidance to law enforcement, and it must be followed," James wrote on X.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has sent a letter calling on Adams and the mayors of three other major cities to testify before Congress regarding immigration enforcement. That hearing is scheduled for Feb. 11.

The mayor’s office said in response that the city is committed to protecting hard-working immigrants while addressing violent crimes by a small group of them.

“Mayor Adams has made clear that New York City is committed to working with our federal partners to fix our broken immigration system and focus on the smaller number of people who are entering our localities and committing violent crimes. We will review the letter and respond accordingly,” the statement reads.

ICE’s daily arrests, which averaged 311 in the year ending Sept. 30, stayed fairly steady in the first days after President Donald Trump took office, then spiked dramatically Sunday to 956 and Monday to 1,179.

If sustained, those numbers would mark the highest daily average since ICE began keeping records.