{"id":371164,"date":"2026-10-12T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:14:11","slug":"mamdani-urged-trump-mullin-to-end-ice-operations-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371164\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani urged Trump, Mullin to end ICE operations in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first televised interview since a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Oscar Bergal <\/a>in New York City last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani <\/a>told MS NOW\u2019s Jacob Soboroff that during a nearly two-hour phone call with President Donald Trump<\/a> and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin<\/a>, he demanded the agency cease its operations in the city. Mamdani said ICE\u2019s actions were \u201cmaking a mockery of what law and order is supposed to be\u201d and leaving residents in a \u201cstate of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bergal, a 28-year-old Dominican national \u2014 whose last name has also been reported as \u201cBelgal\u201d \u2014 was shot in the neck while sitting in a car with his 5-year-old son during an attempted arrest Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan. Federal officials have defended the operation, citing Bergal\u2019s criminal history and alleged gang affiliations.<\/p>\n

According to Mamdani, Thursday\u2019s shooting was yet another example of ICE\u2019s disregard of protocol<\/a>. \u201cWhat they have shown, time and again, is that they view the law as a suggestion,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a reason why the NYPD would not be shooting at a moving vehicle. There is a reason why law enforcement agents are supposed to wear identifiable information and uniforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani said bystanders witnessed a scene that looked more like a mass shooting than a law enforcement operation. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about people carrying their shopping bags, walking by a bodega, thinking they\u2019re on their way home, then they hear shots ring out. And they don\u2019t even know whether this is from someone who is supposed to be a law enforcement agent or just someone who is terrorizing the city,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when it comes to ICE, there is no difference between those two things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether the city would pursue criminal charges against the agent who fired, Mamdani told Soboroff that local authorities were investigating. \u201cRight now, this case is with District Attorney Clark in the Bronx, and I am fully confident in the district attorney,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mamdani also discussed his nearly two-hour call with Trump and Mullin shortly after the shooting, during which he said he pressed the administration to end its immigration operations in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said directly to the president, I\u2019ve said directly to the secretary, as someone who cares about public safety, who cares about law and order, I am demanding that ICE cease their operations in our city immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause these operations make New Yorkers less safe. They leave New Yorkers in a state of terror, and that is something that should be opposed by all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAllison Detzel is an editor\/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for \u201cAYMAN\u201d and \u201cThe Mehdi Hasan Show.\u201d\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first televised interview since a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Oscar Bergal in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-371164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371164","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=371164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}