Politics & Government Active Updated Aug 1, 2026
ICE's neighborhood surge
Masked ICE agents fanned out across Bushwick, Inwood, East Elmhurst and College Point over two days at the end of July, checking a child's passport and pepper-spraying a bystander who filmed them, in what advocates call the sharpest uptick in activity since border czar Tom Homan threatened a buildup. The surge tests whether the crackdown holds past the state's Aug. 25 deadline for local police to cut ties with ICE and how far masked, warrantless operations spread into immigrant neighborhoods.
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Masked ICE agents surged through Bushwick, Inwood, East Elmhurst and College Point over two days, checking a child's passport at one stop and pepper-spraying a woman who filmed them at another, Brooklyn Paper reported. NYC ICE Watch called it the sharpest uptick in activity since Homan's threatened buildup, and the New York Immigration Coalition said it will likely continue.
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