Why is New York's mayor demanding an immediate halt to federal ICE raids?

Federal immigration officers shot a driver during an arrest in Marble Hill, prompting a large evening protest that later moved toward the hospital treating him in neighboring Inwood.

The confrontation drew intense scrutiny amid a wider push to increase immigration arrests, with federal agents having shot at least 21 people across the country since Donald Trump returned to office.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said agents wearing masks and construction vests had surrounded the vehicle while a five-year-old child was sitting inside, urging the White House to halt operations: When we speak, I will demand that he stop all ICE operations in our city.