Mamdani leads New York Democrats in demanding parking lot owners ban ICE
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, along with other New York Democrats, asked the owners and operators of parking garages and lots in New York City to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using their private property as “staging areas” for operations.
TL;DR
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Democrats urged parking garage and lot owners to ban ICE from using their property as staging areas.
- The request was made in a letter over a week after an ICE officer shot a 28-year-old Dominican immigrant.
- The shooting occurred near a privately owned parking lot in Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood that ICE had been using.
- Concerns about ICE using these private lots as staging areas had been raised by residents and officials for months.