Target Says It’s Not Working With ICE Amid Uproar Over Parking Lot Use

Target said it was not working with federal immigration authorities as it faced criticism over the use of a store parking lot in New York as a staging area for agents after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man on Thursday.

The store, inside the Shops at Marble Hill, a mall on West 225th Street, is just down the street from where the shooting occurred. The mall also contains Marshalls, CVS, Starbucks and Foot Locker. Marble Hill is a neighborhood near the northern tip of Manhattan and is often considered part of the Bronx.

“Target has no cooperative agreements with ICE or any other immigration enforcement agency,” a company spokesman said in a statement on Friday.

After the shooting, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, demanded that Target prohibit immigration officials from using its spaces, and protesters have gathered in the Marble Hill neighborhood to call for ICE to leave the city.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/nyregion/target-parking-lot-ice.html