{"id":106469,"date":"2026-01-20T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:32:09","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-calls-for-abolishing-ice-as-anger-grows-over-renee-good-minneapolis-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106469\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for abolishing ICE as anger grows over Renee Good Minneapolis killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani said Tuesday he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> as the agency escalates its immigration crackdowns across the country.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s, who\u2019s long been a critic of the agency, told the hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d that ICE is \u201cterrorizing people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cWhat we need to see is humanity, and there is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani first said he supported doing away with ICE on the campaign trail in an appearance on MSNBC<\/a> in which he praised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx-Queens) as one of the leaders in that call. His comments on Tuesday mark the first time he\u2019s reiterated that stance as mayor.<\/p>\n

The mayor last week voiced outrage when a City Council employee<\/a>\u00a0was detained by ICE, calling it an \u201cassault on our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ZohranZohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference outside the Jacob K. Javits federal building Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Manhattan, New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n

Aggressive crackdowns in New York and other Democrat-led cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Chicago have incited national outrage<\/a>. Amid the uproar, the idea that ICE should be done away with, long a largely far-left idea, has slid into more mainstream political conversations.<\/p>\n

A national Economist\/YouGov poll<\/a> conducted just days after Renee Good\u2019s killing by ICE in Minneapolis found that 46% of poll takers supported abolishing the agency, with 43% opposed.<\/p>\n

Manhattan Rep. Dan Goldman, who\u2019s facing a competitive Democratic primary challenge from former city Comptroller Brad Lander, said over the weekend that it\u2019s time to \u201ctear down\u201d ICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, many politicians remain cautious despite being critical of the agency. That includes Gov. Hochul, who last week in an interview with Fox5<\/a> said that she does not want ICE abolished.<\/p>\n

Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition and an ally of Mamdani\u2019s, praised the mayor\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration has destroyed what was left of the working part of the immigration system, and now it\u2019s time to rethink the entire immigration system, not just ICE,\u201d Awawdeh told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are starting to question, are we even a democracy anymore or are we living in a fascist regime?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA protester is detained by Federal agents near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo\/Adam Gray)<\/p>\n

Spokesmen for ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it\u2019s really nice to have you here. You make sense,\u201d \u201cView\u201d host Whoopi Goldberg told Mamdani at the end of Mamdani\u2019s Tuesday interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani said Tuesday he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency escalates its immigration crackdowns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[267,75,84,83,9,24,10,692,12,63,87],"class_list":["post-106469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106469","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=106469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}