Left’s New Migrant Martyr Kept Getting Off For Armed Robbery, Drug Dealing

The man wounded by ICE agents during an attempted arrest in the Bronx on Thursday is a Dominican national who federal officials say entered the country illegally and was freed by local authorities despite an immigration detainer, according to the New York Post.

Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck after plainclothes agents approached his parked Honda SUV in Marble Hill around 4 p.m. Marcos Charles, who leads ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said Belgal drove into two of the agents as he tried to get away. Belgal’s 5-year-old son was in the back seat and was not physically hurt. Belgal was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and later moved into federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Court records show Belgal was arrested in late 2023 and accused of holding up two passengers in his car at gunpoint on Morris Avenue. He was later released without bail, later pled guilty to a reduced charge of fourth-degree grand larceny, and was sentenced to a month in jail and five years of probation. In August 2025, he was arrested again on charges of selling fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. The case remains open. Federal officials said ICE filed a detainer after the drug arrest, but the city did not honor it.

Thursday’s encounter was ICE’s second attempt to take Belgal into custody. Officials said he evaded agents in September. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the press release that federal investigators believed Belgal had “direct or indirect knowledge” of the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in Fort Washington Park.

Two Dominican nationals in the country illegally were charged in that attack, in which the officer was shot in the face and arm and returned fire. ABC7 reported both were sentenced in federal court this week.

Mullin blamed New York’s sanctuary laws. “Sanctuary politicians create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for American citizens to be safe,” he said.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has called for abolishing ICE, referred to Belgal as “a New Yorker.” He said the agents’ masks and construction vests left “no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents.” Gov. Kathy Hochul said residents “deserve to know exactly what happened.”

Mullin said the agents were wearing body cameras, but DHS has not released the footage.