{"id":106370,"date":"2026-01-20T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:21:10","slug":"mamdani-says-he-is-in-support-of-abolishing-ice-during-appearance-on-the-view-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106370\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani says he is \u2018in support of abolishing ICE\u2019 during appearance on \u2018The View\u2019 \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he is \u201cin support of abolishing\u201d Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an interview on \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said he is \u201cin support of abolishing\u201d Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an interview on \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in support of abolishing ICE, and I\u2019ll tell you why,\u201d Mamdani said in response to a question<\/a> about whether ICE has \u201cany legitimate law enforcement role.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it\u2019s doing is terrorizing people no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani said that he was \u201ctired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of their car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life. What we need to see is humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity,\u201d Hizzoner continued. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing from ICE is not it, and we have not seen that from them in a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor has been critical of ICE, which has ramped up its enforcement frequency and tactics in the first year of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term. ICE officers have increased detentions in New York City, particularly at 26 Federal Plaza<\/a> in lower Manhattan, where immigrants arrive for routine hearings.<\/p>\n

Throughout the past year, ICE agents across the country have worn masks and plain clothes to conceal their identities while conducting raids and arrests, raising questions from top legal brass and elected officials, including Mamdani, about the legality of the operations.<\/p>\n

\"ICEFILE \u2013 A man is yanked through the hallway by an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza in 2025.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

During a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech on Monday, Mamdani raised his concerns about the conduct of ICE, citing \u201cthe craven abuses of ICE across this country and also in this city,\u201d saying ICE is targeting immigrant communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wear masks because they know that what they are doing is wrong,\u201d he said in his speech.\n<\/p>\n

Mamdani himself is an immigrant. He was born in Kampala, Uganda, and came to New York City at the age of nine.\n<\/p>\n

Hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets<\/a> in October 2025 after an ICE raid on Canal Street in which officers detained several street vendors, four of whom were United States citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mayor has condemned the Jan. 7 ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis and reaffirmed New York City\u2019s sanctuary city policies, which ensure that ICE cannot enter schools or city property without a judicial warrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, our values and our laws are not bargaining chips. We are proud of them. We are New Yorkers who believe that everyone in the city should be safe,\u201d Mamdani said during a Sunday morning interview with ABC7.<\/p>\n

Good\u2019s killing set off protests across the country, including in New York City.\n<\/p>\n

In calling for the abolition of ICE, Mamdani joins a growing contingent of elected officials seeking to abolish the enforcement body. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx\/Queens) has called for the abolition of ICE and pushed for drastic funding cuts to the agency on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

ICE is increasingly unpopular across the country. A recent Associated Press\/NORC poll<\/a> found that 38% of adults support Trump\u2019s handling of immigration in the wake of Good\u2019s killing, down from 49% in March 2025.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he is \u201cin support of abolishing\u201d Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an interview on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[878,98,100,99,24365,9496,48166,48167,9872,9198,9961,19252,9,24,8975,63,613,11170,48168,28208,655,82],"class_list":["post-106370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-civil-liberties","tag-dhs","tag-federal-immigration-raids","tag-ice-abolition","tag-immigrant-rights","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-immigration-policy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-politics","tag-nyc","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-progressive-politics","tag-public-opinion-on-immigration","tag-sanctuary-city","tag-trump-administration","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}