Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used a national television platform this week to call for the outright abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aligning himself with the far-left flank of the Democrat Party that has long sought to dismantle federal immigration enforcement.
According to The Post Millennial, Mamdani made his remarks during an appearance on ABCs The View, where the studio audience cheered as he attacked the federal agency charged with enforcing immigration law. His comments underscore a growing divide between progressive city leaders and federal authorities under President Donald Trump, who has emphasized border security and the rule of law as central pillars of his administration.
"I am in support of abolishing ICE, and I'll tell you why," Mamdani said to the applause of the View's audience. "What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead, what it's doing is terrorizing people, no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case."
Mamdani framed ICE not as a law-enforcement body but as a force of intimidation, casting its officers as aggressors rather than protectors of public safety. "And I'm 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, and there is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity. What we're seeing from ICE is not it, and we have not seen that from them in a long, long time," Mamdani added.
He further claimed that immigration raids conducted by ICE "rip" apart New York City, suggesting that enforcement actions target people whose only offense is their presence in the city. We are talking about people whose crimes simply seem to be being in New York City and if they make good on this threat and would rip the civic fabric of the city apart," Mamdani claimed.
That narrative stands in sharp contrast to data cited by the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security, which indicate that roughly 70 percent of those taken into ICE custody have been convicted of, or charged with, crimes beyond illegal border entry. From a law-and-order perspective, dismantling ICE would mean releasing thousands of criminal aliens back into American communities, undermining both public safety and national sovereignty.
Mamdani also doubled down on his rhetoric surrounding the shooting of Renee Good, insisting the incident was "murder" and vowing to uphold New Yorks sanctuary city policies even if it means losing federal funds. What Ive said is that our values and our laws theyre not bargaining chips, he said, signaling that ideological commitments to sanctuary policies will take precedence over cooperation with federal immigration authorities and the fiscal stability of the city.
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