New York to monitor Trump's deportation efforts with new legal observers

FILE PHOTO: New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the media after she pleaded not guilty to charges that she defrauded her mortgage lender, outside the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., October 24, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - New ‌York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and ‌record the Trump administration's immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the ‌state's attorney general said on Tuesday.

The announcement follows weeks of sometimes violent tumult in Minneapolis, where U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed, masked agents as he tries to deport more migrants than any of his predecessors.