10/11/2026
THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU: The man ICE shot in the neck HAD RAMMED TWO ICE VEHICLES AND DROVE AT AGENTS. He did this WITH his 5-year-old in the back seat.
Gov. Kathy Hochul called that an outrage. She said ICE "fired into a vehicle with a five-year-old child inside" and asked President Trump to halt operations in New York.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refused. "We're not putting a pause on enforcement," he said. "In fact, I'm not sorry."
Belgal, 28, was the target of a Thursday arrest in Marble Hill. ICE Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles said officers blocked him in. He floored it, smashed two federal vehicles, and aimed the car at agents.
At least one officer fired seven rounds. Belgal was hit superficially in the neck, below his left ear. Agents gave first aid. He is stable and now in a detention facility outside New York.
Mullin said the agents did not know the child was in the gray Honda CR-V. Belgal did. He still chose to run.
DHS called him a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic. A 2023 robbery case ended in a guilty plea to fourth-degree grand larceny and five years of probation. Charles said he runs with a gang known for thefts using weapons and mopeds, and ICE already had a detainer on him.
New York never honored it. Mullin said the state has answered more than 14,000 ICE detainer requests with "absolute silence."
That silence is why this arrest happened on a sidewalk instead of at a jail door. Hochul is furious at the agents. The mainstream media is (of course) blaming the agents. But Hochul has not said a WORD about the man who used a car with a child in it as a weapon.
