Overview
- In a letter to Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Rep. Dan Goldman asked the NYPD to be prepared to detain and prosecute federal agents for unlawful conduct and to train officers on the bounds of civil immigration authority.
- The push cites ProPublica’s finding of roughly 170 instances of U.S. citizens detained by ICE and a video showing Monica Moreta-Galarza being shoved to the floor inside Manhattan’s immigration court.
- DHS says its enforcement operations are highly targeted and do not result in arrests of U.S. citizens, and the department has barred lawmakers from unannounced inspections of the detention area at 26 Federal Plaza.
- Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander joined Goldman, urging NYPD checks of masked agents’ identities and judicial warrants on city streets, not inside the federal building.
- NYPD and City Hall did not immediately comment; recent New York enforcement has concentrated inside government buildings, with reports of rising street raids and confrontations reported in other U.S. cities.