DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed Tuesday that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is \u201cabsolutely destroying a great city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mullin made the remarks during an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cHannity\u201d\u00a0<\/a>a day after Mamdani renewed his call for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mamdani was responding to Trump border czar Tom Homan\u2019s warning of an impending surge of immigration agents in NYC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Politics: White House\u2019s New Knicks-Related Royal Title For Trump Sparks Instant Revolt<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not going to tell us where we can and cannot enforce our nation\u2019s laws. Because we are not, Sean, picking and choosing which laws we enforce. We enforce the laws that Congress passed,\u201d Mullin told host Sean Hannity.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd for Mayor Mamdani, who is absolutely destroying a great city like New York, to say that ICE needs to be abolished … I mean, come on, they\u2019re Immigration [and] Customs Enforcement \u2014 that\u2019s their job,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo if he wants to have open borders and wants to allow criminals to run their streets, well, his constituents don\u2019t want that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Homan threatened to increase the number of immigration agents in New York City during an interview on Fox News<\/a> on Monday, saying\u00a0the administration plans to deploy \u201cmore ICE agents than you\u2019ve ever seen\u201d in the city, adding, \u201cit\u2019s coming.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n In turn, Mamdani slammed ICE at a Monday press conference<\/a> about the World Cup.<\/p>\n Politics: AI-Generated James Talarico Sings Trans Song In Disturbing GOP-Backed Ad<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI want to be very clear about the fact that I believe that ICE raids are cruel, they are inhumane, they do nothing to serve in the interest of public safety. I\u2019ve shared that directly with the president, I\u2019ve shared that in public. It is a feeling that many New Yorkers share,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201dAnd I also do believe that ICE, as an entity, is one that should be abolished, and that we should return to an immigration system that has more humanity at the heart of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani also vowed not to allow ICE to \u201csow fear in our communities\u201d in an X post <\/a>on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Watch a clip from Mullin\u2019s appearance on \u201cHannity\u201d below. <\/p>\n Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related…<\/p>\n