NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Administration Forced to Give Names of Homeless Shelter Residents to ICE

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration legally must provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement with information about residents of a homeless shelter in the Bronx.

On November 6, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the city must comply with a subpoena from federal immigration officials to share information about the identities of some of the men who live at the Bruckner shelter in Mott Haven, according to the New York Post.

“The City has not shown that producing this list would be unduly burdensome,” Kaplan wrote in his ruling.

ICE is looking to collect residents’ names, birthdays, and records as they investigate whether anyone living at the city-run shelter is a non-U.S. citizen subject to deportation, the outlet reported. While ICE first asked for the names of everyone living there, the agency has since said it will designate a special master to identify residents only with “certain serious criminal histories,” the filing revealed…

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