Over 250,000 New York residents have been ordered deported, according to a 2025 analysis of immigration court data.
Reports indicate an upcoming shift in U.S. immigration enforcement with anticipated ICE raids across sanctuary cities after Trump's inauguration.
New York’s status as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants has shifted over time. Now, as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to enter office, it may shift once again.
A chorus of nationally known faith leaders and other clergy in the New York area had supported the New Sanctuary Coalition director's plea to be spared deportation.
The orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship.
Trump's immediate immigration enforcement plans include targeting Chicago, New York and Miami, though those plans may soon change.
Congress could withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions like New York City that limit information about non-citizens from being shared with federal
The locations expected to be targeted by deportation teams from ICE include those with large populations of immigrants, one source said.
Immigrants in Chicago and other U.S. cities have been preparing for immigration arrests since President-elect Donald Trump won the November election.
The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
President-elect Donald Trump‘s handpicked “Border Czar“, Tom Homan, has said he is reconsidering the immediate immigration raids on Chicago and New York after details about the plan were leaked online.