Target Denies ICE Ties After 1 Shooting Sparks New York Parking Lot Backlash
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Target Denies ICE Ties After 1 Shooting Sparks New York Parking Lot Backlash
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Summary
Target said Friday it has no cooperative agreements with ICE or other immigration agencies, responding to criticism over agents using a New York store parking lot as a staging area.
The backlash followed Thursday’s shooting near the Marble Hill shopping center, where an ICE officer shot and wounded a man and agents then gathered in the lot outside Target.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Target bar immigration officials from using its Bronx-area properties, while protesters rallied in Marble Hill calling for ICE to leave the city.
City officials had already pressed Kingsbridge Associates, the plaza’s developer, earlier this week to end any agreements allowing ICE to use the private parking lot.