{"id":381577,"date":"2025-11-15T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:34:18","slug":"zohran-mamdani-risking-nyc-violence-with-immigration-enforcement-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381577\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani risking NYC violence with immigration enforcement resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

If ICE or other immigration agents go out of bounds, the place to fight them is the courts, not the streets \u2014and New York pols from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> on down are courting chaos if they play the issue otherwise.<\/p>\n

Consider City Councilman Shaun Abreu\u2019s smear Wednesday, posting an inflammatory video<\/a> that he claimed showed Homeland Security officers pulling a migrant out of an SUV in Washington Heights without due process.<\/p>\n

Abreu blasted the arrest as \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d and part of a \u201cdespicable pattern of intimidation,\u201d huffing that agencies \u201ccarrying out [President Donald] Trump\u2019s agenda of detaining people without due process have no place in our city.\u201d <\/p>\n

In reality, the arrestee was Alpha Amadou Diallo, who hopped the border in 2021 and received full due process before a Biden-era immigration judge ordered his removal last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbreu should stop fearmongering and smearing our brave law-enforcement, who are facing 1000% increase in assaults against them and a nearly 8000% increase in death threats,\u201d warned Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

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Another incident Wednesday raised other fears: When NYPD cops saw men chasing someone, they raced to investigate and intervene if necessary \u2014 only to quickly recognize fellow law-enforcers (cops usually know cops, even in plainclothes) and help stop the runner.<\/p>\n

Though painted in some initial accounts as feds-vs.-police, the incident actually highlighted the importance of cooperation between cops and ICE \u2014 something New York perversely prohibits.<\/p>\n

Yet Mamdani has promised<\/a> to resist removals of even of violent-criminal illegal immigrants; he calls ICE a \u201crogue\u201d agency and vows to stop it from enforcing the law with deportations, using use his power as mayor \u201cto reject Donald Trump\u2019s fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you want to pursue your promise to create the single largest deportation force in American history,\u201d blusters the mayor-elect, \u201cyou will have to get through me to do that here in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Mamdani is eager to ignore US law to carry out<\/a> the International Criminal Court\u2019s warrant for the arrest of Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu, and also vows to forcibly block federal immigration law-enforcers: Does he think Washington will simply shrug? <\/p>\n

We expect city cops would refuse to obey illegal orders, but Mamdani\u2019s resistance talk sets up confrontation between federal agents and fired-up radicals \u2014 the kind of face-off that led to the murder of innocents at a Texas ICE facility not long ago, as well as to violence in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles this year.<\/p>\n

The feds have so far refrained from using the force at their disposal to come down hard on these radical rioters, but they\u2019ll certainly look for answers to radical pols like Mamdani, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and others who pour more gasoline on the fire.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t think Trump should withhold major funds from the city until Mamdani actually does something, but encouraging mass resistance to federal agents would be begging for the federal spigot to shut off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If ICE or other immigration agents go out of bounds, the place to fight them is the courts,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,20174,5310,2398,69,4691,5410,16090,409,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-381577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brandon-johnson","10":"tag-city-council","11":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-editorial","14":"tag-ice","15":"tag-illegal-immigrants","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-opinion","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-violence","31":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555864748908108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}