A New York City Department of Correction officer violated the city’s sanctuary protections for immigrants by providing information to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in multiple cases in 2024 and 2025, according to a new city Department of Investigation report .

The correction officer, who was not identified, assisted federal immigration enforcement efforts in the cases of two immigrants in city custody, identified as Cristian Concepcion and Pedro Mujica Villa Nueva, according to the DOI report.

Federal agents, with the correction officer’s help, arrested Concepcion shortly after his release from Rikers Island and transferred him to an ICE detention center, according to the report. It wasn’t clear what happened to Villa Nueva.

The city’s sanctuary laws largely prohibit the us

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