Mamdani wants ‘Minneapolis in every single place’ with his – Latest News
News that Mayor Zohran Mamdani has employed Bitta Mostofi, a Biden and de Blasio alumna, to “audit” the NYPD and different metropolis businesses for violations of native sanctuary legal guidelines comes amid a bigger lefty push to forestall any cooperation with ICE as a result of progressives need “Minneapolis everywhere.”
Anti-ICE protests throughout the nation are turning into harmful avenue theater the place agitators stage in-your-face confrontations with federal law enforcement in hopes of videos that can shock the public — with precise bloodshed even higher.
The left is already planning to take its ICE resistance act into crimson states — like Florida, Tennessee and Texas — the place native police and sheriffs work with ICE to bloodlessly detain recognized illegal-immigrant criminals.
Appointing Mostofi (who within the de Blasio years lobbied to ban the phrases “illegal immigrant” and “alien” and urged New Yorkers to withstand federal authorities) as “sanctuary commissar” foreshadows a doubling down on activist anti-ICE insurance policies emanating from City Hall.
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Mamdani has already foolishly repealed an Adams-era govt order that allow the feds monitor Tren de Aragua and different gangs inside the Rikers Island jails.
Politico studies that Commissar Mostofi will invent new, more extreme penalties for metropolis staff who flout “sanctuary” mandates.
This comes on the heels of Mamdani tapping Faiza Ali — a Palestinian activist with ties to the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations and infamous anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour — as the town’s new chief immigration officer.
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Nor is the mayor out on a limb right here: Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to ban any cooperation with ICE by native law enforcement.
From “youth-led” walkouts and academics donning black for solidarity marches in New York City to a “general strike” in Minneapolis, the left is utilizing anti-ICE fervor to bend the Democratic Party to its will.
“Moderates” like Hochul play alongside as a result of they determine it’ll help them this November; it appears they don’t care what longterm harm it does to the Democratic model, nor to the nation.
