Mamdani admin must hand ICE the names of NYC homeless shelter residents: court

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration will be forced to hand ICE the names and birthdays of certain residents of a city-run Bronx homeless shelter, according to a bombshell federal ruling.US District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Friday that the city must comply with a subpoena from federal immigration officials to provide identifying information for some male residents at the Bruckner shelter in Mott Haven.“The City has not shown that producing this list would be unduly burdensome,” Kaplan wrote in the ruling after months of back and forth between the city and the feds.ICE claims the residents’ names, birthdays, and records are relevant to an investigation into whether any Bruckner shelter residents are subject to deportation.Though ICE initially requested the names of all residents, the agency has allowed a special master to be appointed to identify residents only with “certain serious criminal histories,” the filing said.

ICE has filed four separate subpoenas since August for Mamdani’s team to provide information about those dwelling in multiple city-run homeless shelters — though the city has fought back every attempt.The city declined ICE’s first Aug.6 request for resident information in two city-run homeless shelters, blasting the subpoena as “an improper fishing expedition lacking any legitimate investigative purpose.”City Hall did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.The 2,200-bed Bruckner shelter, converted from a vacant South Bronx storage facility, sparked an uproar among angry locals when it opened in 2025.

The city-run facility is an emergency migrant shelter that became a home for asylum-seeking men displaced from the troubled Randall’s Island migrant tent city.In February, the Mamdani administration released a plan to phase out the shelter by the end of 2026 and integrate Bruckner residents into the broader homeless shelter system....