{"id":366641,"date":"2025-11-09T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366641\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:23:46","slug":"nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch-got-trump-admin-heads-up-before-ice-raid-on-canal-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366641\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch got Trump admin heads up before ICE raid on Canal Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received advance notice from the Trump administration last month that ICE agents were hours later going to conduct a controversial immigration enforcement raid<\/a> along Canal Street in Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

In response, sources say Tisch directed NYPD officers to stay away from the ICE agents as they bore down on the busy downtown thoroughfare and arrested nine<\/a> allegedly undocumented street vendors \u2014 a chaotic operation that drew mass protests and marked one of the Trump administration\u2019s most aggressive immigration crackdowns in the city to date.<\/p>\n

Tisch, who has served as NYPD commissioner since Mayor Adams appointed her in November 2024, didn\u2019t violate any sanctuary city laws by getting a heads up about the Oct. 21 operation or acting on that information.<\/p>\n

In fact, an NYPD spokeswoman said Thursday that Tisch ordered officers to remain on the sidelines in order to comply with such laws, which bar the city from helping the feds with civil immigration enforcement, and, conversely, to also avoid any sort of standoff between ICE agents and city cops.<\/p>\n

Still, the revelation that Tisch had advance knowledge of the Trump administration\u2019s Canal St. raid<\/a> could raise a number of complicated questions for Zohran Mamdani, the mayoral-elect who has said he wants to keep Tisch on as NYPD commissioner once he takes office Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\"FederalFederal agents conduct an immigration sweep on Canal Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Jake Offenhartz)<\/p>\n

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has vowed to as mayor fight President Trump\u2019s \u201cmass deportation\u201d agenda to try to stop detentions of undocumented New Yorkers not accused of serious crimes. Some of his leftist supporters have called for city resources to be used to outright block ICE from operating in the five boroughs, and Mamdani himself said Wednesday he wants individual ICE agents to know that under his administration they will \u201cbe held accountable\u201d legally if they violate any local laws.<\/p>\n

When asked during last month\u2019s second and final mayoral debate<\/a> specifically what he would have done in response to the Canal St. raid if he was mayor, Mamdani called ICE a \u201creckless entity\u201d that \u201ccares little for the law\u201d before adding: \u201cWhat we need to be doing here in our city is to end the chapter of collaboration between City Hall and the federal government, which we\u2019ve seen under Mayor Adams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked Thursday about Tisch\u2019s communications with the feds before the Canal St. raid, Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec said the mayoral-elect believes she acted appropriately and wishes she would do the same thing if a similar situation arises in the future, citing the need to not have the NYPD assist the feds in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

\"ZohranZohran Mamdani speaks outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 in New York City. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

But the fact that Tisch received word of the raid beforehand comes as she still reports to Adams, who has publicly committed to not publicly criticize Trump<\/a> and got his corruption indictment quashed by the president\u2019s Department of Justice this past spring.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if the Trump administration would be inclined to provide that same type of advance notice to Tisch about any ICE activity if she\u2019s police commissioner under Mamdani, who has been maligned by the president as \u201ca communist.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE spokespeople didn\u2019t return requests for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n

Trump has for months threatened to deploy the National Guard, in addition to ICE, to New York City in the event of a Mamdani mayoral election, saying his administration would need to \u201cclean up\u201d the city if he took over the reins at City Hall.<\/p>\n

Tisch \u2014 who hasn\u2019t yet said whether she will accept Mamdani\u2019s offer to remain NYPD commissioner \u2014 found out about the Canal St. raid roughly four hours in advance of it playing out, with a federal law enforcement official in the Trump administration informing her of the plans in a private conversation, according to several sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The NYPD spokeswoman confirmed \u201cNew York-based federal law enforcement partners\u201d told Tisch of the raid before it happened.<\/p>\n

Tisch then told the mayor\u2019s office of what she had learned before also issuing the directive to NYPD personnel, the sources said.<\/p>\n

NYPD officers stayed away from the ICE raid as ordered.<\/p>\n

Later, the NYPD was on hand as a large group of protesters gathered that evening at\u00a026 Federal Plaza<\/a>, the federal immigration agency\u2019s headquarters, where ICE transported those detained.<\/p>\n

The NYPD spokeswoman said Tisch disclosed her advance knowledge of the Canal St. raid during a recent meeting with City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Council Public Safety Committee Chairman Yusef Salaam and Council Immigration Committee Chairwoman Alexa Aviles.<\/p>\n

Also in that meeting, the spokeswoman said Tisch told the speaker and the other Council members that the Canal St. incident was \u201ca perfect example\u201d of the \u201ccritical role\u201d the NYPD is playing in ensuring public safety in the city in order to prevent the National Guard from being deployed to the five boroughs by Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received advance notice from the Trump administration last month that ICE agents were hours…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13239,5410,409,12939,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-366641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-jessica-tisch","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115519253155901415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}