New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the city won’t be checking the immigration status of children enrolling in his administration’s free childcare programs and federal agents will not be allowed access unless they can present a warrant “signed by a judge.”
“Just to put it very clearly, these are programs for every single New Yorker,” Mamdani said in a media roundtable discussion. “These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children.”
“All of those children are New Yorkers,” he continued. “They should all be enrolled in 3-K and pre-K, no matter where they were born or where they come from. And we are also proud to be a sanctuary city.”
The mayor said
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