a letter sent Oct. 16<\/a>, the officials urged more than a thousand owners and operators not to rent, lend or otherwise make their property available to ICE. They also called on property owners to notify the agency directly that it is not authorized to use their facilities.<\/p>\nThe push comes one week after ICE agents surrounded a car on a crowded residential street in Marble Hill and fired multiple rounds at Oscar Belgal, 28, striking him in the neck while his 5-year-old son sat in the vehicle. Agents had reportedly been staging operations from a private parking lot a few blocks away.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week, ICE agents shot a father in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cCity law already bars ICE from using City property as a base of operations. Federal agents are turning to private parking lots, including a lot just blocks from where they shot Mr. Belgal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Marble Hill incident is not isolated. ICE has also operated out of two bank parking lots on Northern Boulevard in Queens and a garage on Morton Street in Manhattan, officials said. After neighbors spoke up about the Morton Street location, the garage removed ICE vehicles from its property.<\/p>\n
City law already prohibits ICE from using city-owned property \u2014 including parking garages, schools, shelters and hospitals \u2014 as staging areas, processing locations or bases of operations, absent a judicial warrant or a limited legal exception. In February, Mamdani issued Executive Order 13, strengthening protocols governing how city agencies interact with federal immigration authorities. An audit completed in May led to updated city guidance on the issue. Those protections, however, do not extend to private property.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE continues to escalate its attacks on our communities, resulting in immigrant New Yorkers living under constant threat and making our city less safe,\u201d said Faiza N. Ali, commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs. \u201cWhile our city\u2019s local laws prohibit the use of city-owned properties and lots for federal civil immigration enforcement, including ICE staging, we urge private property owners to do their part to protect immigrant New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter was signed by dozens of city and state politicians, but did not include the signatures of any Staten Island officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and more than 100 elected officials from across New York state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-375425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375425","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=375425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}