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ICE Tries to Recruit NYPD Officers, Citing Mamdani's Past Calls to 'Defund' the Force

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Fugitive Operations and Special Response Team members conducted a high risk arrest of a criminal alien in Miami, Florida. (Credit: US Immigration and Custom Enforcement/Flickr)

New York City's mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, may not have even taken office yet, but his past criticism of the New York Police Department (NYPD) has already prompted a federal response.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun recruiting NYPD officers to leave the city force, framing it as an opportunity to work under a 'President and a Secretary who support and defend law enforcement—not defund or demonise it'.

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