Local elected officials and community advocates are calling for a boycott of Target following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent-involved shooting in Marble Hill that left a Bronx father wounded while his 5-year-old child was inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
City and state leaders rallied outside the Target on West 225th Street Tuesday, raising concerns over reports that federal immigration agents have been using the shopping center\u2019s parking lot as a staging area for enforcement operations.<\/p>\n
Just one day before the shooting, local elected officials sent a letter to Target and the property\u2019s owners questioning whether ICE had been authorized to use the lot.<\/p>\n
Following the shooting, the Bronx City Council delegation issued another letter calling on Target to prohibit the use of its property for ICE staging operations and demanding an independent investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a known fear that the community had. And tragically, on Thursday, that fear was realized,\u201d said City Comptroller Mark Levine.<\/p>\n
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams urged New Yorkers to boycott the retailer until it takes further action.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not shop at Target, New Yorkers, until they come to us and show us what they\u2019re going to do to protect us,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
In a statement to News 12, Target said, \u201cTarget has no cooperative agreement with ICE or any immigration enforcement agency.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company also said it cannot interfere with authorized law enforcement activity and noted that multiple businesses share the parking lot.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security defended its immigration enforcement efforts, with Secretary
Markwayne Mullin criticizing sanctuary policies and saying federal agents would continue making arrests.<\/p>\n
Advocates say they will continue pressing Target to explicitly oppose the use of the parking lot as a staging area for immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local elected officials and community advocates are calling for a boycott of Target following an Immigration and Customs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-372474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}