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Mayor De Blasio's Twitter account was active early Sunday morning after recent immigration related arrests by federal officials. (Staten Island Advance/File photo)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- Mayor de Blasio took to Twitter early Sunday morning, after a week of immigration-related arrests by federal officials.

Just before 6 a.m., he tweeted his office will stand with the "nearly 40 percent of New Yorkers who are foreign born--documented or undocumented."

He also tweeted that NYPD officers will never ask about immigration status.

His office then posted information for immigrants seeking legal assistance.

New Yorkers should call 311 for questions regarding supportive services, such as legal assistance through ActionNYC. https://t.co/9SrxBRrj40 — NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) February 12, 2017

Five Mexican immigrants were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials after several raids across Staten Island in February, according to Make The Road New York, a community organization with an office in Staten Island.

The arrests on Staten Island were among 40 arrests citywide, according to a statement Sunday from Steve Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition.

"Shame on ICE for putting New York's immigrant communities - four million strong - in a state of panic," wrote Choi. "These arrests do nothing but tear families apart, hobble our economies, and corrode the bonds of trust that tie our communities together - all under the false pretense of "public safety."

Daniel Altschuler, a community organizer with Make The Road New York, told the Advance that all five of the Mexican immigrants detained were males, originally from Mexico -- four of whom have families with children that are U.S. citizens.

The immigration status of the individuals could not be confirmed as of Sunday morning.