NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration lashed out Monday against New York City officials over their sanctuary policies as authorities arrested a second man living in the country illegally in connection with the nonfatal shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem called the two suspects, both from the Dominican Republic, “scum of the earth.” She said they'd accumulated lengthy criminal records in just a few years and should not have been free to commit Saturday’s robbery-gone-wrong in a Manhattan park.

Noem blamed the mayor and city council, nearly all Democrats, saying “the people that were in charge of keeping the public safe refused to do so.”

Border czar Tom Homan, meanwhile, vowed the administration would “fl

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