{"id":106673,"date":"2026-01-21T01:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:18:20","slug":"mayor-mamdani-supports-abolishing-ice-on-abcs-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106673\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani supports abolishing ICE on ABC’s ‘The View’"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani <\/a>said he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the wake of violence, including the shooting death of a mother of three, coming out of Minnesota and other targets of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in support of abolishing ICE. \u2026 What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,\u201d Mamdani said during an interview on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The new mayor, who was sworn in Jan. 1, was asked where he stood following renewed calls from Democratic leaders to abolish ICE amid the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. <\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s remarks came as Democratic lawmakers demanded more oversight over ICE after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good<\/a> by an immigration agent earlier this month. A group of 53 House Democrats last week called for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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An ICE officer shot Good at least three times in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis. The killing marked at least the fifth death<\/a> tied to Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

\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, and no matter the facts of the case,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/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. What we need to see is humanity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

This past year the Trump administration has ramped up its immigration crackdown in Democratic-led cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

A recent poll by CNN<\/a> found that 51 percent of Americans feel that ICE tactics are making cities less safe. An Economist\/YouGov <\/a>poll released last week found that 46 percent of Americans support abolishing ICE, with 43 percent opposed on getting rid of the agency. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a way to care about immigration in this city and this country with a sense of humanity. What we\u2019re seeing from ICE is not it and we have not seen that from them in a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have you here,\u201d Whoopi Goldberg replied to Mamdani\u2019s comments about ICE. \u201cYou make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alyssa Vega can be reached at alyssa.vega@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the wake of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1993,2132,2659,21000,60,48278,4275,1092,48279,9,24,55,54,1492,56,48280,40042,21297,87,6986,7153],"class_list":["post-106673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-anti-semitism","tag-democrats","tag-election","tag-flag","tag-israel","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-local-politics","tag-mayor","tag-mideast","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-north-america","tag-ny","tag-palestinge","tag-palestinian","tag-peace","tag-politics","tag-protest","tag-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106673","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=106673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}