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City Shutting Down Historic 30th Street Intake Shelter The 30th Street shelter in Manhattan has served as the gateway to the city’s shelter system since the 1980’s, but is in dire need of repairs.

huge news from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social: the city is shutting down the 30th Street shelter, a primary gateway for homeless intakes for decades

In an urgent plea this morning posted on Instagram, first reported on by @columbiaspec.bsky.social she wrote "DHS illegally arrested me. please help."

An Azerbajani undergrad at Columbia was arrested by DHS agents who lied their way into her campus housing, according to acting prez and legal filings seeking her release reviewed by @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/e...

ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail Rep. Dan Goldman learned of the expansion on Wednesday when he became the first lawmaker to visit the federal facility since it began detaining immigrants last June.

ICE has doubled its capacity to hold immigrants at MDC, while federal filings from immigrants held there reveal frequent lock downs, inedible food, and difficulty accessing medical care.

ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail Rep. Dan Goldman learned of the expansion on Wednesday when he became the first lawmaker to visit the federal facility since it began detaining immigrants last June.

"A Colombian man with HIV, referred to in legal filings as O.F.B., went more than a week without access to his preventative HIV medication despite asking staff at the prison for them multiple times each day." — @gwynnefitz.bsky.social and @rosalindadams.bsky.social
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After an ICE Arrest, a Scarred Family Returns to 26 Federal Plaza Ingrid and her two young children, one of them a U.S. citizen, had gone for a routine check-in, only to spend the holidays trapped in a hotel room awaiting their seemingly inevitable deportation. This...

“‘I hope they don’t arrest us because the 13th is Valentine’s Day, and I want to be there,’” a son told his mother ahead of an recent ICE check in at 26 Fed.

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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:

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City Council Staffer Denied Bond, Deemed ‘Danger to Society’ Immigration Judge Charles Conroy denied the release of a City Council data analyst whose arrest by ICE last month provoked widespread outrage.

The City Council staffer arrested by ICE at an asylum interview was denied bond by an immigration judge this morning.

“There’s pressure in this case to not release my client because he works for the City Council,” attorney Roger Asmar told THE CITY. “It’s all political.”

ICE Detained a 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and her Honduran Family in Hotels for Weeks The mother and her two young children, one of them born in the United States, were not able to contact the outside world for nearly three weeks while being held in hotel rooms in Queens and Louisiana.

A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them.

"We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc.

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Not at this one specifically that I've heard but at the chain nationally.

NYPD's Strategic Response Group is on scene, protesters are being walked out of Hilton lobby from back door marched to bus.

Anti-ICE protesters outside a Hilton in Lower Manhattan, where a group of demonstrators inside the lobby, dozens of NYPD SRG on site, some have entered hotel through a back door.

Thousands marching in solidarity with Minneapolis against ICE in NYC. @thecity.nyc

wow yes I'm stuck in 2025 ty!

Hudson River Park Ending Decades-Long Parking Contract with ICE The contract with the publicly-owned corporation that allows ICE to park vehicles on Pier 40 won’t be renewed when it expires at the end of June.

The @hudsonriverpark.bsky.social Trust is ending contract with ICE to stash vehicles at Pier 40 parking lot.

The 150K a year contract ends in June, but @bradhoylmansigal.bsky.social whose district oversees the park, is calling for the trust to cut out early.

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NYSNA nurses go wild as Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at the picket line in Washington Heights @thecity.nyc

Protests Greet DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on New York Visit After Minneapolis ICE Killing

As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly.

from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:

Presser has begun, DHS is announcing "Operation Salvo" where they've arrested 54 people since the shooting of an Off-duty CBP officer over the summer, 30 ppl have already been deported, the rest are in ICE custody, officials say.

A day after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is expected in NYC to discuss enforcement efforts here. reporting for @thecity.nyc

Hours after this story went out yesterday, workers outside Delaney Hall enclosed the open air waiting room, giving families a little more protection from the elements during the long wait outside the facility to see loved ones.

In Freezing Cold and Long Lines, Families Wait to See Detained Migrants at Delaney Hall Visitors to the privately-operated immigrant lock-up in Newark fear it’s the last time they may see loved ones inside for a very long time.

“For me, this is a joke. You don’t even treat an animal this way.”

I spoke ppl visiting loved ones detained at Delaney Hall, now the largest ICE detention center in northeast, who often have to wait more than hour outside before they can enter.

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Father and Son Separated by ICE Deported Together to China After his arrest on Nov. 26, Fei Zheng was held at the Orange County Jail upstate. His son was in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The father and son whose separation at 26 Federal Plaza last month drew widespread outrage have been deported to China.

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Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador Citing agreements with the three countries, Department of Homeland Security attorneys at 26 Federal Plaza are now asserting that immigrants have no right to apply for asylum in the United States.

In immigration court today DHS lawyers moved to toss peoples' asylum claims en masse, arguing they should seek asylum in countries they may have never set foot in instead.

h/t to @hellgatenyc.com who first reported on the Trump administration's latest tactic.

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ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants.

NYC shelter staff violated city sanctuary laws at least three times earlier this year -- according to lawyers who reviewed incident reports I obtained.

Staff gave ICE and DHS info about a former resident and let them enter private spaces of shelters, reports show.

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Ms Diallo had a 2012 removal order but an immigration also granted her "withholding of removal" to Guinea. On Friday, Trump admin attorney argued they wanted to deport her to another country though they hadn't decided which.

A federal judge probed DOJ attorney on why she had been singled out Ms. Diallo. "I don't know, your honor," the attorney said repeatedly. Crowds of supporters packed the courtroom and cheered when a federal judge ordered her immediate release.

Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing Aissatou Diallo, the aunt of Adama Bah, was released Friday after a judge ripped into the Trump administration’s dubious account of her arrest and efforts to deport a woman who’d lived peacefully in A...

The aunt of Adama Bah, a prominent New York immigrant activist and advocate, was freed from ICE detention today.

She'd been grabbed from line to board a plane at LGA airport two days before Thanksgiving.

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The latest ICE arrest data crunched by data wiz @haidee.bsky.social who found 70% of people arrested by ICE in NYC had no criminal arrests or convictions, a much larger share than the rest of the country.

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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.

NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.

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