Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said Tuesday that ICE is increasing operations in New York City due to its status as a sanctuary city.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani doubled down on a campaign pledge Wednesday, declaring the NYPD will be “delivering public safety, not assisting ICE."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents broke down the door of a Queens family’s home last week in a video released by the New York Immigration Coalition on

The comments came after White House Border Czar Tom Homan said that federal officers would return to New York City.

An NYPD cop impersonated an ICE agent and demanded his victim and their family report to a federal office in New York City, federal prosecutors revealed Tuesday.

Atickul Islam, a NYPD sergeant, was arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to a charge of impersonating a federal agent.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) is targeting NYPD officers for recruitment following Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ’s victory in the race for New York City’s top job. Since Mamdani’s victory, the agency has posted three times on X specifically trying to recruit NYPD officers, indicating a focus on the city’s law enforcement personnel.

When masked federal officers showed up on a street corner in Corona, Queens, earlier this month and started arresting Latino men, seemingly stopped at random, volunteers alerted through Signal chats and direct messages rushed to the scene.