Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani blasted Mayor Eric Adams for his willingness to collaborate on President Trump’s immigration crackdown following federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a couple of dozen people at Manhattan courts on Wednesday — an operation City Hall says it was not involved with.
Mamdani, an Assembly member representing western Queens, charged that it was Adams’ cozy relationship with Trump that allowed ICE agents to swarm federal immigration courts and make numerous arrests on May 29. The agents detained both migrants showing up to their routine immigration court dates, and observers inside facilities at 26 Federal Plaza and on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan.
