What does Mamdani think ICE is FOR — cold drinks? – Latest News
“What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani thundered Tuesday on “The View” to clarify why “I am in support of abolishing ICE”; in some way none of the crack coverage analysts on ABC’s chat show thought to ask him what federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement is meant to.
Hand it to the mayor: He is aware of how to evangelise to his fangirls.
Problem is, the company’s “reason to exist” is discover, arrest and deport felony unlawful immigrants — rapists, murderers, pedophiles, drug sellers and different heinous goons.
Sadly, a lot of them received waved into the US inside within the Biden years; getting them out is a main public-safety precedence.
Yet in some way Mamdani and the remainder of the American left has rushed proper back to their #AbolishICE battle cry of the pre-Biden years.
They nonetheless demand open borders, nonetheless insist unlawful immigration in violation of US law isn’t a crime.
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Hence he pretends enforcement is all “about people whose crimes simply seems to be being in New York City”; in actuality, if native politicians would cooperate as ICE goes after the worst of the worst, it wouldn’t be out within the neighborhoods the place more-pacific unlawful migrants reside.
But the new mayor has gone as far as to toss his predecessor’s order that permit Homeland Security and different federal law enforcers monitor Tren de Aragua and different gangs inside Rikers.
That is, he’s defending the worst guys whereas pretending to take care of different immigrants that the gangs prey upon.
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Homeland Security has listed 7,000 illegal-immigrant gangbangers it’s expelled this final 12 months; it would’ve been twice or 3 times as many if blue-state leaders weren’t at conflict with the feds.
Fine; you may fault Team Trump’s leaders for seeming to need to play the cartoon-villain roles that the left assigns — however that doesn’t make ICE’s work any much less very important for safeguarding the public.
Even now, the company’s behaving in pink states just about because it did below President Barack Obama, when the left whined about such law enforcement however didn’t faux it amounted to a fascist evening falling on America.
It’s the anti-ICE lunatics who’re inflicting chaos, with each intent to make it worse.
Here in New York, the mayor’s outdated Democratic Socialist comrades are recruiting and coaching 4,000-plus activists to do Minneapolis-style “rapid response” obstruction of feds making an attempt to arrest hard-core-criminal unlawful immigrants.
Mamdani’s preaching to Whoopi and the ladies is a tacit signal he needs unnecessary violence on Gotham’s streets.
