Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón said she was unaware of the details of comments New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made during a recent visit to Puerto Rico about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in communities with large numbers of people with unresolved immigration status. Asked about the visit at a press conference at the Economic Development Bank, González Colón said she had neither heard nor read his remarks.
"I didn’t see it, only the comment that he liked the mofongo, which made me very happy," she said, adding: "I didn’t see the ICE part, but I did make some remarks about that." Mamdani, a New York Democrat, said he rejects President Donald Trump’s immigration policies of mass raids and deportations without due process.
"We have heard testimony from people who don’t want to leave their homes for fear of ICE here in Puerto Rico," Mamdani said, calling them "the same stories we hear in New York City." González Colón’s administration, particularly the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP), has been criticized for giving ICE personal information on immigrants through an administrative subpoena.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Puerto Rico (ACLU) said DTOP turned over information on 6,321 people with unresolved immigration status. Mamdani posted a video on social media of himself eating mofongo stuffed with garlic chicken and salad. Raids in barrio Obrero, Villa Palmeras in Santurce and Río Piedras ended with the detention of Dominican nationals.