Posted on 11/16/2025 7:17:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
If ICE or other immigration agents go out of bounds, the place to fight them is the courts, not the streets —and New York pols from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on down are courting chaos if they play the issue otherwise.
Consider City Councilman Shaun Abreu’s smear Wednesday, posting an inflammatory video that he claimed showed Homeland Security officers pulling a migrant out of an SUV in Washington Heights without due process.
Abreu blasted the arrest as “deeply disturbing” and part of a “despicable pattern of intimidation,” huffing that agencies “carrying out [President Donald] Trump’s agenda of detaining people without due process have no place in our city.”
In reality, the arrestee was Alpha Amadou Diallo, who hopped the border in 2021 and received full due process before a Biden-era immigration judge ordered his removal last year.
“Abreu should stop fearmongering and smearing our brave law-enforcement, who are facing 1000% increase in assaults against them and a nearly 8000% increase in death threats,” warned Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
Another incident Wednesday raised other fears: When NYPD cops saw men chasing someone, they raced to investigate and intervene if necessary — only to quickly recognize fellow law-enforcers (cops usually know cops, even in plainclothes) and help stop the runner.
Though painted in some initial accounts as feds-vs.-police, the incident actually highlighted the importance of cooperation between cops and ICE — something New York perversely prohibits.
Yet Mamdani has promised to resist removals of even of violent-criminal illegal immigrants; he calls ICE a “rogue” agency and vows to stop it from enforcing the law with deportations, using use his power as mayor “to reject Donald Trump’s fascism.”
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Trump is good but we need Pinochet.
ICE should avoid NYC. Just raid all around it, drive the illegals into the city. Let sit for summer of 2026 — like a Halloween pumpkin in the sun.
GOOD! Violence against the Federal government will not end well for those who participate, or Mamdani himself if he even hints at encouraging it. He may want to check the many laws on the books regarding this.
Yep, because he doesn’t want the gravy train drying up.
Is there any chance Zohran could be arrested and charged with sedition? I would get out the popcorn and soda for that.
That process started long before Mandami.
“… the place to fight them is the courts, not the streets —“
I had full confidence when Mamdani was elected that there’d be specifically violence in the streets because that’s the way communism rolls.
“Doesn’t he plan to fire the police and replace them with social workers ? LOL”
Hell no. Leftist and Islamist Brownshirts.
He has a Governor as a back up and cover it’s going to be a battle for the people of NYC.
Laws on the books? Laws mean nothing as written, only what a judge says that they mean. His word is now the law unless overturned by a higher judge(s).
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