Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani described newly disclosed reports that the FBI and NYPD monitored a private group chat used by volunteers observing the city’s immigration courts as “deeply troubling” on Monday, and vowed that his incoming administration would conduct a review.

The Guardian last week initially reported that the FBI monitored immigrant-rights activists by accessing a “courtwatch” Signal group, which organizes volunteers who observe public hearings at three federal immigration courts in NYC. A two-page “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the NYPD dated from Aug. 28, which The Guardian obtained, had quoted from the encrypted messaging app Signal and characterized the court watchers as "anarchist violent extremist actors."

The CITY was first to confirm that the

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