Donald Trump's Department of Justice has launched an investigation into New York hotels housing migrants without documentation.

Addressing a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump made several claims about federal spending that he described as wasteful — including the assertion that his administration had identified $59 million supposedly spent on New York City hotel rooms to house immigrants living in the country illegally.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have reportedly issued a criminal subpoena to a hotel in Manhattan seeking a full list of names of migrants residing at it and potentially New York government