NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani releases audit accusing federal immigration agents of misleading tactics
Findings from inspections of six New York City agencies aimed at ensuring compliance with the city’s sanctuary laws revealed that federal immigration officials used aggressive and deceptive tactics, the Mayor’s office said. Zohran Mamdani He said Friday.
The inspections and recommendations were part of Executive Order 13, which mandated public safety audits for six specific city agencies: Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), New York Police Department (NYPD) and Department of Corrections (DOC), Department of Probation (DOP), Health and Mental Hygiene (DOOHH), and Social Services (DSS).
The order was issued by Mamdani after taking office to fulfill his promise to protect the city’s immigrant communities.
The 19-page executive summary details interactions between agencies and federal immigration officials, as well as recommendations to close gaps and blind spots in the city’s sanctuary policies.
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“The findings and recommendations released today will strengthen City agencies’ protocols when interacting with federal officials and ensure that everyone New YorkersRegardless of their immigration status, they can safely access the City services to which they are entitled,” Faiza Ali, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs, said in a statement.
Among the findings: federal immigration officials have intensified their targeting of shelters in the city, leading to a sharp increase. custody requests to the city’s Department of Corrections and the New York Police Department. The report also accused immigration authorities of using aggressive and misleading tactics.
NYPD received 3,672 requests for plainclothes immigration detention officers in 2025; This was a huge increase from just 99 requests the previous year. The NYPD did not transfer any individuals to ICE in response to these requests.
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According to the report, in June 2025, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel visited a shelter and initially falsely identified themselves as Fire Department officials. However, they admitted they were with DHS after a city employee requested identification.
In April 2025, officials from various federal agencies US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), DHS, FBI, and DEA visited the shelters ten times, sometimes in plainclothes. They used tactics such as requesting “health checks” on children to obtain information about specific customers. In other cases, agents served subpoenas or administrative arrest warrants that did not legally allow access to shelters, but on two occasions they served legally binding judicial warrants (leading to one’s arrest).
In another example, ICE agents entered a Department of Probation (DOP) building in Brooklyn and asked to use the restroom, but then tried to look at the facility’s logbook. Staff caught them, checked their IDs and took them out, the report said.
Mamdani has been a vocal opponent of ICE and the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. In a statement, he called the audit “a critical step toward strengthening compliance with our local laws and strengthening New York City’s protections for immigrant communities.”
“I am proud to share key findings and recommendations from the audit that will enable us to respond to the changing nature of federal policies.” immigration enforcement and protecting the rights of all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status,” he said.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the White House called on leaders to cooperate with ICE.
“ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities; local authorities should work with them, not against them,” said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson. “Anyone who does otherwise is merely doing the bidding of illegal criminal aliens. The Trump Administration will not hesitate to enforce federal immigration law.”
The recommendations in the report are as follows:
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Limiting the inclusion of immigration status details in pre-sentence investigation reports.
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Strengthen internal protocols for monitoring and publicly publishing detention requests.
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Review of shelter incident reports and protocols regarding access to city properties.
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Establishing protocols requiring the NYPD Communications Section to notify the Operations Section of any 911 calls or requests involving federal immigration authorities.
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