{"id":63704,"date":"2025-12-08T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63704\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:13:17","slug":"zohran-mamdani-tells-immigrant-new-yorkers-about-their-right-not-to-comply-with-ice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63704\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants\u2019 right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/zohran-mamdani?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mamdani<\/a> vowed to protect the city\u2019s 3 million immigrants, saying, \u201cWe can all stand up to ICE if you know your rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He explained that people in the US can choose not to speak to federal immigration agents, film them without interfering and refuse their requests to enter private spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICE<\/a> agents cannot enter spaces such as homes, schools or private areas of a workplace without a judicial warrant signed by a judge, Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you have the right to remain silent. If you\u2019re being detained, you may always ask, \u2018Am I free to go?\u2019 repeatedly until they answer you,\u201d said Mamdani, who will be sworn in as mayor on January 1.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His comments came a week after demonstrators gathered as ICE attempted to detain people on Canal Street near New York\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants\u2019 right to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9256,9098,153,2035,9873,75,3686,9,24,55,54,56,246,14120,33478,26299,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-63704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-canal-street","9":"tag-chinatown","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-immigrants","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-october","21":"tag-oval-office","22":"tag-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","23":"tag-us-president","24":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704","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=63704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}