Mamdani clarifies NYC won't check immigration status for universal childcare enrollees

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani clarified Friday that the city wouldn’t check the immigration status of children enrolling in his administration’s universal pre-K and 3-K programs.

"Just to put it very clearly, these are programs for every single New Yorker," Mamdani, who took office at the beginning of the year, said in a media roundtable discussion. "These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children.

"All of those children are New Yorkers.