Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is launching operations in New York City, according to The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation.
NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported Monday that sources in ICE had told her New York City-based enforcement operations began Monday morning in Queens and will move to Long Island on Tuesday.
The operations will target people who had prior immigration detainers that were not upheld. These include ICE requests to other law enforcement agencies for information about an immigrant’s custody status and to hold on to the immigrant for longer than they normally would.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has been highly critical of ICE. Following the killing of a Mexican immigrant in Houston by the agency earlier this month, he called for the agency’s abolition.
“New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice. Abolish ICE,” Mamdani said in early July.
The Hill has reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment on the operations.
The second Trump administration’s immigration policy has faced heat, which boiled over earlier this year after two U.S. citizens were killed in Minneapolis by federal immigration authorities.
On Sunday, White House border czar Tom Homan said he did not “know specifically” the status of ICE officers involved in two fatal shootings that occurred recently in Texas and Maine.
“I don’t know specifically,” Homan said on “State of the Union” to CNN’s Dana Bash. “I haven’t been involved in the investigations, but it’d be policy that they’d be put on administrative leave during the shooting investigation.”
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