Judge Lewis Kaplan Orders New York City to Give ICE the Names and Birthdates of Residents of the Bruckner Boulevard Shelter, Enforcing an ICE Subpoena

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Friday that New York City must comply with an ICE subpoena and turn over a list of certain male residents that live in a shelter on Bruckner Boulevard along with their birthdays, Gothamist reported. “The City has not shown that producing this list would be unduly burdensome,” the ruling reads. “Under the applicable case law, the Court therefore has no choice but to compel the subpoena’s enforcement.” ICE had asked for the names of all residents; under the ruling, a special master will identify only residents with “serious criminal histories.”

The converted South Bronx warehouse sleeps more than 2,000 and is the city’s last emergency migrant housing facility. Beginning in August 2025, ICE submitted four separate subpoena requests for personal information about residents of New York City shelters, and the city fought them, once calling a request a “fishing expedition lacking any legitimate investigative purpose.”