In keeping with his Marxist campaign platform, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will apparently have his cops arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
He didn’t use those words, but he did strongly imply it, as does his platform, which itself says he will put New York into rebellion and insurrection against the federal government.
Whether President Donald Trump will have Mamdani arrested if he interferes with ICE, as he promised in June, remains to be seen. But that might just happen. Mamdani’s campaign literature certainly seems to say he is willing to violate at least five federal statutes.
Mamdani’s Platform
Mamdani’s platform is clear on the immigration question: The city will harbor illegals and block ICE from arresting and deporting them. It vows to “end any cooperation” with the agency and “get ICE out of all city facilities.” That includes the city’s Rikers Island jail complex, which Mamdani plans to close anyway.
The reason: Cooperation “is not about making New York safer, but about tearing families apart and throwing our communities into disarray,” his website says:
The Mamdani administration will end this collaboration immediately and ensure all City-owned or City-leased facilities remain protected from Trump’s deportation efforts. The administration will also ensure that no City resources are used for immigration enforcement. … Overall, sanctuary laws make us safer, including by allowing undocumented people to talk to the police.
Mamdani promised to spend $165 million for illegals to get lawyers, and to “protect all personal data from other jurisdictions.” That means the city will not tell the government when it has arrested an illegal alien.
During his campaign, he vowed to “kick the ‘fascist ICE’ out of New York City.” The Big Apple, he said, will be “Trump Proof.”
“Good luck with that,” border czar Tom Homan replied on Larry Kudlow’s program on Fox:
Federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute. We’re going to be in New York City. Matter of fact, because it’s a sanctuary city President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago, we’re going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities.
“He Will Be Arrested”
For his part, President Trump will lock the mayor in federal prison, or so he threatened in June.
Speaking from the Alligator Alcatraz illegal-alien detention center, a 3,000-bed relaxing spa surrounded by the man-eaters, Trump correctly warned Marxist Mamdani of his fate should he defy federal law.
“Well then, we’ll have to arrest him,” Trump replied:
Look, we don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation.
Neither Homan nor Trump fazed Mamdani.
“My message to ICE agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standards,” he said:
If you violate the law you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense that is growing across this country that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be the President, or whether they be the agents themselves.
That would apply to Mamdani, who should be aware that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi warned sanctuary cities of legal trouble if they interfere with ICE operations or otherwise break federal law.
Bondi cited five laws:
• 8 U.S. Code 1324, Bringing in and harboring aliens;
• 18 U.S. Code 371, Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States;
• 18 U.S. Code 1071, Concealing person from arrest;
• 18 U.S. Code 1505, Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees; and
• 8 U.S. Code 1373, Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Also on the table could be the law regarding rebellion and insurrection, 18 U.S. Code Section 2383:
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
The National Guard website explains when the president can federalize the National Guard. “To enforce federal authority,” it says, “whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, assemblages, or rebellion make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State or Territory, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State.”
Immigrants in Charge
That said, Mamdani also averred that immigrants are now running New York City.
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he said in his Tuesday victory speech.
Not surprisingly, Mamdani isn’t just a friend of illegals, who he (like other Democrats) seems to think are not breaking the law. He’s also pro-criminal, a reason he wants to shut down Rikers Island and loose 8,000 criminals upon the city.
He wants to defund New York’s “racist” police, and doesn’t believe police should answer domestic violence calls.
One reason to keep the cops away from those calls might be his religion, Islam, which sanctions wife beating.
Mamdani is a Uganda-born Indian and hasn’t been a citizen for even 10 years. His middle name, Kwame, comes from Kwame Nkrumah, the Ghanaian communist.
