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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday threatened the Trump administration with legal action over federal immigration agents’ use of city parking lots to stage raids, which the Democratic elected official said amounted to “unlawful commandeering” of public property.

“This use of city property in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement is unauthorized and is therefore illegal, endangers city residents, and sows fear among those who seek to access city property,” Mamdani wrote in a letter addressed to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) acting director, David Venturella.

Mamdani’s letter notes that ICE agents have “reportedly parked their vehicles and conducted meetings in several city-owned, unstaffed parking lots” — including ones near a park and a city-run preschool.

“ICE has not secured any authorization from the........

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