NYC mayor calls on parking garage owners and operators to keep ICE off their property

Well, we now know that more than 100 elected officials have joined that letter by Mayor Zohra Mamdani, calling on New Yorkers to not rent, lend or make their properties available to ICE for what he calls anti-immigrant operations. Now, the letter comes one week after ICE agents fired multiple rounds at 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in Marble Hill on October 8th. The agency says Belgal was a Dominican national with a criminal history and possible gang ties. The undocumented father's five-year-old son sat in the backseat of that car. Now, the mayor says the agents were reportedly staging operations from a private parking lot just a few blocks away, with many advocates pointing to the target on Marble Hill. Now, the mayor says over the last year, the city has acted with urgency to ensure property under the city's jurisdiction isn't used for federal immigration enforcement, but the laws don't cover private lots and garages. Over the last few days, rallies across the borough continue calling on ICE to leave New York. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz is one of the names penned in the letter to New Yorkers. Yesterday, he spoke with our team about why he wants ICE out. I don't want people in my community or in the Bronx or anywhere being endangered by reckless actions of under-trained ICE agents. Now, the Department of Homeland Security did say in a press conference that they didn't know Belgal's son was in the car and at the time felt their lives were in danger. Now, since Belgal's arrest, we have heard back from a Target spokesperson who tells us they have no agreement with ICE or any immigration enforcement agency. That's the latest here in Marble Hill. Jonathan Calixto, News 12.