New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani issued a stark warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, emphasizing that its agents are not beyond the reach of the law.
“My message to ICE agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable,” Mamdani said at a press briefing the morning after his groundbreaking win.
ICE has faced major public scrutiny in recent months amid President Donald Trump’s aggressive second-term immigration enforcement policies, which have resulted in displays of violent tactics and civil rights concerns.
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Last month, the agency conducted a raid on a Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night, where residents described children being dragged out without clothes. In other instances, immigration agents have also pointed weapons at people or slammed them to the ground.
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Data released by the government in September and cited by The Guardian reveal that the largest group inside ICE detention centers consists of immigrants with no criminal records.
Despite the backlash, Trump told Norah O’Donnell of CBS’s “60 Minutes” that ICE raids ”haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”
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Mamdani told reporters on Wednesday, “There is, sadly, a sense that is growing across this country that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be the president or whether they be the agents themselves.”
The New York City mayor-elect’s speech came a day after a cryptic X post from Trump’s top White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller. After the mayoral results were announced, Miller posted a screenshot from NYC.gov that described “Family Household Types by Immigration Status.” The image read, in part, “almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant.”
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We wish himl well,,,,,,,,,dont we? no negativity, no bad language,no mispelllled words, hang in there, The Unseen Rhealm is working on it,,,,long story there........ok,,I gotta go, engines to load, and motorcycles to ride,,high 70 today in east Tennessee,,,big orange country,,thats what they say....
“My message to ICE agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable,” Mamdani said at a press briefing the morning after his groundbreaking win.
ICE has faced major public scrutiny in recent months amid President Donald Trump’s aggressive second-term immigration enforcement policies, which have resulted in displays of violent tactics and civil rights concerns.
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Last month, the agency conducted a raid on a Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night, where residents described children being dragged out without clothes. In other instances, immigration agents have also pointed weapons at people or slammed them to the ground.
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Data released by the government in September and cited by The Guardian reveal that the largest group inside ICE detention centers consists of immigrants with no criminal records.
Despite the backlash, Trump told Norah O’Donnell of CBS’s “60 Minutes” that ICE raids ”haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”
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Mamdani told reporters on Wednesday, “There is, sadly, a sense that is growing across this country that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be the president or whether they be the agents themselves.”
The New York City mayor-elect’s speech came a day after a cryptic X post from Trump’s top White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller. After the mayoral results were announced, Miller posted a screenshot from NYC.gov that described “Family Household Types by Immigration Status.” The image read, in part, “almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant.”
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We wish himl well,,,,,,,,,dont we? no negativity, no bad language,no mispelllled words, hang in there, The Unseen Rhealm is working on it,,,,long story there........ok,,I gotta go, engines to load, and motorcycles to ride,,high 70 today in east Tennessee,,,big orange country,,thats what they say....