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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Democratic mayoral primary debate, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in New York. Yuki Iwamura\/Pool via REUTERS<\/p>\n
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani returned to the United States on Wednesday from a week-and-a-half-long trip to his native country of Uganda<\/a> and was allowed through Customs without any incident, his campaign confirmed to amNewYork.<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s decision to leave the U.S. on July 20 to celebrate his marriage to Rama Duwaji with his family in Uganda raised concerns that President Trump\u2019s administration, which has openly flirted with revoking his citizenship<\/a>, might try to block his re-entry. The democratic socialist\u2019s campaign even prepared for that possibility by keeping regular contact with the offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James in case Mamdani ran into any issues, New York Magazine reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yet Mamdani was able to re-enter the country without being stopped or detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, his campaign confirmed.\n<\/p>\n Now that Mamdani, a Queens Assembly member, has returned to the Big Apple, he is wasting no time in getting back on the campaign trail nearly a month after winning the Democratic primary by a wide margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Assembly member will hold a 2 p.m. event at the headquarters of 32BJ SEIU, one of the union\u2019s that has endorsed him<\/a>, to honor the four victims killed by a mass shooter<\/a> in a Midtown office building earlier this week, his campaign announced.\u00a0The union\u2019s president, Manny Pastriech, will be there as one of the victims,\u00a0security guard Aland Etienne, was a 32BJ member.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Mamdani will also be joined by Shamsul Haque, the founder of the Bangladeshi American Police Association, to honor slain Bangladeshi NYPD officer Didarul Islam.\n<\/p>\n The New York Times reported that<\/a> soon after arriving back in the city on Wednesday, he met with Islam\u2019s family at their home in the Bronx for roughly an hour, though\u00a0his campaign has yet to confirm the meeting.<\/p>\n The event comes after Mamdani faced fierce\u00a0criticism from his opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, during the past day over his previous support for the \u201cdefund the police \u201c<\/a> movement. He has since distanced himself from the movement\u00a0but has floated shifting the NYPD\u2019s responsibilities for responding to those in mental health crises to a new proposed city agency staffed by non-police personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n