Judge Orders Mamdani's City to Hand ICE Bronx Shelter Names

A federal judge has ordered Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration to comply with an ICE subpoena seeking personal information on men staying at a Bronx homeless shelter, the Washington Examiner reported Saturday.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ruled Friday that the city "must comply with the subpoena," overriding Mamdani's objections. ICE is seeking the names and birth dates of homeless men at the shelter to determine whether any are in the country illegally and subject to deportation.

The report does not name the shelter or lay out the specific grounds for the city's objections, and it includes no direct comment from Mamdani on the ruling.

The decision is a notable win for federal immigration enforcement in a city whose mayor has made resisting it a signature issue. A judge appointed by a Democratic president heard the city's objections and rejected them, which undercuts the claim that ordinary ICE information requests are somehow illegitimate. Subpoenas exist so the government can check who is in the country lawfully; New York's leaders now have a court order telling them to cooperate.