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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to societal media connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) explaining immigrants' close to garbage to talk to oregon comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, days aft national agents carried retired a raid successful Manhattan.
In the video, Mr. Mamdani vowed to support the city's 3 cardinal immigrants, saying, “We tin each basal up to ICE if you cognize your rights.”
He explained that radical successful the U.S. tin take not to talk to national migration agents, movie them without interfering and garbage their requests to participate backstage spaces. ICE agents cannot participate spaces similar a home, schoolhouse oregon backstage country of a workplace without a judicial warrant signed by a judge, Mr. Mamdani said.
"ICE is legally allowed to prevarication to you, but you person the close to stay silent. If you're being detained, you whitethorn ever ask, Am I escaped to go?' repeatedly until they reply you," said Mr. Mamdani, who volition beryllium sworn successful arsenic politician connected Jan 1.
His comments came a week aft demonstrators gathered arsenic ICE attempted to detain radical connected Canal Street adjacent New York's Chinatown. A akin migration expanse successful the aforesaid neighbourhood past October was besides met with protests.
"New York volition ever invited immigrants, and I volition combat each and each time to protect, support, and observe our migrant brothers and sisters," Mr. Mamdani said successful Sunday's video.
Weeks earlier, Mr. Mamdani had a amazingly cordial Oval Office gathering with President Donald Trump, whose medication is carrying retired national migration enforcement operations successful respective U.S. cities, astir precocious successful New Orleans.
