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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Sunday the city will launch an investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s shooting of a criminal illegal migrant and the NYPD’s response.

The democratic socialist mayor, who has previously called the federal agency “rotten to its core,” repeated a call for ICE to get out of the Big Apple and accused it of acting more like a terrorist organization than a law enforcement agency.

“The city is still dealing with having been terrorized by a rogue federal agency,” Mamdani seethed during an interview on MS Now.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a MS Now interview Sunday that the city will investigate the ICE shooting of a criminal migrant in last week. MS NOW
Federal agents gather where accused gangbanger Oscar Belgal was shot during an encounter with ICE in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx on Oct. 8, 2026. Obtained by the NY Post

Mamdani has been railing to “abolish” ICE and said he pushed his text buddy President Trump and his administration to pull its immigration agents out of New York in the wake of the shooting of Dominican Republic native Oscar Belgal, 28, who was hit in the neck while in a moving vehicle with his 5-year-old son in the backseat.

The illegal migrant shot by federal ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown has also terrorized his former neighbors with a machete and had suspected ties to the violent Trinitarios street gang, authorities said.

Belgal’s rap sheet includes a 2023 grand larceny robbery conviction and an August 2025 arrest for allegedly selling lethal drugs like fentanyl, cocaine and heroin.

But Mamdani said the migrant was “hurting” after getting shot in the neck while his 5-year-old son was “traumatized.”

The mayor claimed ICE agents shielding themselves in construction vests and shooting at a vehicle in “broad daylight” was beyond the pale.

Oscar Belgal was previously arrested for selling drugs in 2025 and convicted of grand larceny robbery in 2023. DHS

“It feels as if you’re looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing some purportedly representing a federal agency,” Mamdani said.

“What New Yorkers want to see is the end of ICE activities across our city. In New York City it is not acceptable to be firing at a moving vehicle …to be shooting at a car where there is a 5-year-old in it.

“There’s a reason why the NYPD would not be shooting at a moving vehicle,” he added.

Belgal’s 5-year-old son seen at the scene of the shooting. Reuters

Mamdani admitted his two hours of discussions with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin regarding the ICE shooting resulted in a standoff.

Talks will continue, he said.


Here’s the latest on the Bronx ICE shooting:


“The secretary did not think ICE did anything wrong,” the mayor said.

He refused to detain Belgal because there was no warrant for his arrest.

The New York Post cover on Oct. 10, 2026.

“They’re making a mockery of what law and order is supposed to be, and then they want us to justify their actions for them,” Mamdani claimed.

Mamdani said his administration, and particularly the NYPD, will conduct a review of what transpired during the 24-hour period of the ICE shooting, the police response and the handling of protests.

The investigation will include how a Target parking lot was used as a staging area for ICE, he said.

People protesting against ICE outside of NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital on Oct. 8, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post

“We will use every tool at our disposal to keep New York safe,” he said.

He said 70% of illegal migrants detained by ICE do not have criminal records, yet the agency is “ripping families apart.”

“Trusting ICE’s word is a fool’s errand. It’s rinse and repeat,” Mamdani said. “I am demanding ICE cease operations in the city immediately. It leaves New York less safe.”

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