Zohran Mamdani responds to Trump saying he would ‘arrest’ him if he does not comply with ICE

Donald Trump said that I should be arrested. He said that I should be deported. He said that I should be denaturalized. And he said those things about me. Someone who stands to be the first immigrant mayor of this city in generations. Someone who would also be the first Muslim and the first South Asian mayor in this city’s history. less so because of who I am, because of where I come from, because of how I look or how I speak, and more so because he wants to distract from what I fight for. I fight for working people. I fight for the very people that have been priced out of this city. And I fight for the same people that he said he was fighting for. And we know that in this moment it is up to us in this city to show that we can not only fight back against authoritarianism, but we can also fight for working People.

President #DonaldTrump told reporters that he would consider arresting #NewYorkCity Democratic mayoral candidate #ZohranMamdani in reaction to Mamdani’s comment that he would prevent #ICE from carrying out arrests in the city.

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45 comments
  1. Talk talk talk like politicians. Well of course. Aren't we done with politicians who don't know how deceived he is , proclaimed Socialist Demontratic

  2. Zohran Mamdani reveals his plan to eliminate privately owned housing and replace it with government owned communes, by eliminating luxury communities and upscale neighborhoods

    "We'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish a Community Land Trust to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership."

    "We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale, and we can fully commit to a new era of social housing."

    "Ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone."

    "We won't do commodified housing overnight, but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us."

    Here's a little bit of that history of social housing and its outcomes ((a few of the many examples)

    Soviet Union (Russia), 1917–1991
    The government nationalized housing, creating communal apartments to redistribute wealth.
    It resulted in overcrowding, poor construction quality, and bureaucratic allocation that led to a housing crisis.
    Government overreach ruled through state control and surveillance, fostering poverty with dilapidated living conditions.
    150,000 apartments became uninhabitable each year by 2000.
    Venezuela, 2011–Present
    Launched under Hugo Chávez and continued by Nicolás Maduro, aimed to build 3 million homes to address housing shortages.
    The program resulted in unfinished units and rapid decay, with the program stalling because of economic collapse due to socialist policy resulting in hyperinflation starting in 2015.
    Poverty deepened, with many families left in substandard or incomplete homes, reinforcing government power through propaganda of housing provision while masking systemic failure and suppressing dissent.
    East Germany 1949–1990
    Post-WWII, the socialist government built Concrete blocks to house workers, expanding rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s to meet industrial demands.
    The project led to poor insulation, structural issues, and overcrowding, with construction lagging behind population growth – only 1.2 million units by 1989 against a 2 million need.
    Government overreach ruled in centralized planning and forced relocations, while poverty was sky high because of the inadequate living conditions, with many units abandoned post-reunification in 1990 due to cost.
    China, 1950s–1970s
    Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward included mass housing projects to support rural collectivization, with urban work-unit compounds expanding in the 1960s.
    The program led to shoddily built structures, with many collapsing or becoming uninhabitable. Poverty intensified because of resource misallocation, and government overreach ruled due to the work-unit control over residents’ lives, limiting mobility and personal freedom, with lasting negative impacts.
    Bottom line – socialist housing projects have led to a pattern of government overreach where centralized control led to economic failures and impacting the poor at a greater rate and deepening inequality."

  3. New York and the other blue states on the west coast should join Canada. Then we become the big boys. We can let those swamp creatures who voted for Trump fall apart on their own.

  4. USA is like a delicious cake … for Ants to swamp and eat it…. But then there is no system left to make another cake

    Russia… my friend…. Oligarchs after Stalin ruined the country
    China… changed… more millionaires than New York City

    You are illiterate

  5. You should better shut up and follow of the rules of United States that Miss Cortez she’s gonna put you in a trap you never ever going to anything forward
    It’s not you’re back home country this is America. No one let no one to destroy this place.

  6. Notice how he didn't mention the qualifier Trump added to what he said. Does this guy (with his whopping 8 years as a US citizen) think he can not only defy federal law but fight against federal law enforcement and somehow NOT have his citizenship revoked? I've never been so happy to live in the southern part of the middle of the country…about as far away from NYC, LA, San Fran etc you can get without leaving the country. Whoever votes for this snake in the grass deserves whatever he does to NYC.

  7. You should be arrested, deported cause you are a fake muslim. Go get a job in lran, you look like them. And 33 years old wanna be mayor of a giant city.
    Go change your diaper.

  8. I saw this coming since the inoguration when individuals with divers backgrounds who celebrate and are proud of where they are from spoke in front of everyone. The cameras had to switch views because MAGA freaks were making obnoxious faces and gestures. I saw this coming we know whats in the heart's of the silent Genocide cult.

  9. Why? Is Donald Trump an extremist anti other religions? Anti other races? Wow how amazing he still importing oil from arab race

  10. When Trumps base starts to turn against him in a year, watch how quick Pa Bondi announce charges for this mayor, Gavin, Hunter, Clinton, Joe and Obama. Watch. They will do anything to get back in good graces and thats the last straw they can pull. Bad thing is they won’t have the house or senate by then, so impeachment of his cabinet and him is coming. I say impeach trump then Vance and Jeffries becomes President lol

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