Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons discouraged New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani from refusing to collaborate with his agency.
Mamdani, who will take office on Jan. 1, instructed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch “to ensure no officers are assisting with the actions of ICE” in an interview with PIX11 News.
“What I say to any one of these elected officials that don’t want to support or help ICE is: it’s never the right choice to pit law enforcement against each other,” Lyons said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom on Thursday. “Men and women of ICE are doing a sworn law enforcement mission. We are making communities all across the country safer to include New York City. We’re going to keep doing our mission.”…