NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received advance notice from the Trump administration last month that ICE agents were about to conduct a controversial immigration enforcement raid along Canal Street in Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
In response, sources say Tisch directed NYPD officers to stay away from the ICE agents as they bore down on the busy downtown thoroughfare and arrested nine allegedly undocumented street vendors — a chaotic operation that drew mass protests and marked one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive immigration crackdowns in the city to date.
Tisch, who has served as NYPD commissioner since Mayor Adams appointed her in November 2024, didn’t violate any sanctuary city laws by getting a heads up about the Oct. 21 operation or acting on that informa

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