Federal immigration officers arrested Alpha Bah on Friday after New York City released the illegal alien from Guinea despite an active ICE detainer — forcing federal agents to track down a man already in custody on charges of assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Bah was taken into custody at approximately 3:25 p.m. after ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers tracked him to a temporary residence in New York City, a Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News Digital. Officers spotted him leaving the residence, waited until he was alone and away from school-aged children in the area, and arrested him without incident.
Here is the part that should anger every working American: Bah was already in custody. He was arrested October 7 on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and intent to obtain transportation without paying. ICE lodged a detainer with Queens Central Booking — a formal request to hold him so federal agents could pick him up. City officials released him anyway, without notifying immigration authorities.
New York's sanctuary policies turned a routine custody transfer into a federal manhunt. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin didn't mince words before the arrest: "This illegal alien from Guinea was arrested for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. Despite these violent charges, New York City sanctuary politicians refused to honor ICE's detainer and RELEASED him back onto the streets."
Mullin called on Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani to end what he called "evil sanctuary policies before another American gets hurt, or worse."
The Bah case fits a pattern Fox News has documented: a House report found NYC prosecutors tailored plea deals specifically to shield illegal immigrants from deportation. In another case highlighted by DHS, city officials refused an ICE hold for an illegal alien accused in an arson that killed four and injured seven.
The Washington Examiner, meanwhile, was occupied with a separate case — an illegal immigrant named Lakotah Salvini, indicted in Georgia for impersonating a CIA official and running a fraudulent intelligence outfit called Castle International. Different story, same systemic failure: federal immigration enforcement is catching people who should never have been free to walk the streets in the first place.
The question neither outlet answers, and neither party wants to touch: how many more Alpha Bahs are out there right now, released by sanctuary jurisdictions despite federal detainers, waiting to be found — or to find another victim?
