Trump unleashes cold-hearted ICE

THE POWERFUL federal agency behind the lockup of an immigrant pizza deliveryman has gone on such a spree of arrests under President Trump, it’s created a backlog in the system, court records show.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was born in the post-9/11 climate and has emerged under the Trump administration as a threat to undocumented immigrants regardless of their family ties or solid citizenship.

The Immigrant Defense Project documented 22 cases in the New York area last year in which ICE targeted immigrants with no criminal records.

There was one more last week: The arrest of Pablo Villavicencio as he delivered pizza to a Brooklyn Army base, a law-abiding Long Island dad cuffed and locked up.

The likely deportation of Villavicencio, just weeks before his oldest American-born daughter’s fourth birthday, was blasted Thursday by Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.

But a New York-based ICE agent told the Daily News the arrest at the Fort Hamilton Army Base in Brooklyn was business as usual.

“To us, it’s a nonstory,” the agent said. “We were contacted about a fugitive alien and we took him into custody. It’s ICE 101.”

He noted the agency would face a deluge of criticism if it let an undocumented immigrant walk and something bad ensued.

“The first thing someone would say is, ‘He got stopped at a military base, they called ICE and we refused to get damned don’t.”

The Obama administration was no stranger to deportations — racking up many more than President George W. Bush during his years in the White House. But under President Barack Obama, the priority tilted toward criminals and newly arrived illegal immigrants.

Now, under Trump, critics say a lack of common sense in who to target has created a massive court clog.

Instead of focusing on immigrants with dangerous criminal histories, any undocumented person is considered fair game.

Arrests have jumped to an all-time high under the Trump administration, but deportations have dropped.

“They’re undermining their own goals. They’re just grabbing people him?’ ” he said. “We’re if we do, damned if we