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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) condemned President Donald Trump\u2019s incursion into Venezuela and arrest of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro on Saturday, calling it a \u201cviolation of federal and international law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani, who was sworn in as New York\u2019s first democratic socialist mayor on Jan. 1, wrote on X<\/a>, \u201cI was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City. Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani continued, \u201cThis blatant pursuit of regime change doesn\u2019t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump held a press conference Saturday from Mar-a-Lago to update the American people on the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their extradition to New York, where they\u2019ve been indicted on drug charges.<\/a><\/p>\n The two are expected to be housed in New York City\u2019s Manhattan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which CNN legal analyst Elie Honig called \u201cinfamously one of the worst federal facilities that we have in the bureau of prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt has come under investigation. Judges have ordered investigations because of the conditions there,\u201d Honig told Erin Burnett on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s overcrowded because, as I said earlier, there used to be two separate facilities one in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, but the one in Manhattan is currently closed for renovations,\u201d Honig continued. \u201cSo it\u2019s overcrowded. It\u2019s unsanitary. There have actually even been judges who have given people bail or reduced sentences because of the conditions in this prison. So it\u2019s a rough place to be held. \u201c<\/p>\n The post Mamdani Accuses Trump of Violating International Law As Maduro is Transported to NYC<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Steve Sanchez\/Sipa USA).(Sipa via AP Images) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) condemned President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42393,153,42395,3965,9,24,15862,56,63,65,64,42394,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-88350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-cilia-flores","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-federal-facilities","11":"tag-international-law","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nicolas-maduro","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-venezuelan-president","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88350","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=88350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}