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Posted on 06/26/2026 6:04:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
New York City Democratic socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a DSA-backed candidate who has made no secret of his contempt for federal immigration enforcement, vowed Thursday to defy a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, declaring that New York would "do everything that we can" to keep Haitian and Syrian TPS recipients in the country despite the Court's decision.
The remarks came just hours after the Court ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria, holding that most statutory challenges to those decisions cannot be heard in federal court. As RedState reported Thursday, the ruling removes one of the biggest legal obstacles blocking the administration's effort to end the protections.
Not everyone in New York was sympathetic. NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) called it outright secession, writing on X that Mamdani "considers New York an independent city-state" that doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the federal government, and warned that he and the DSA "will use the power of this city to wage a soft civil war against the nation itself."
Mamdani said he had just returned from a rally with Haitian New Yorkers worried about what the decision would mean for them.
"We saw today the Supreme Court make a decision that is putting so many people's lives in jeopardy," Mamdani said. "This city has been built by so many from so many different parts of the world — that includes our Haitian brothers and sisters, our Syrian brothers and sisters — and we stand here ready to be in solidarity with all of those who are concerned by today's decision, and beyond just language of solidarity, actions of solidarity."
That "action," according to Mamdani, begins with City Hall, specifically directing worried residents to call the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs hotline. It's a notable tell: Faced with a sweeping Supreme Court ruling, the mayor-in-waiting's first concrete response was a phone number.
"Many of you know this is a city of eight and a half million people. More than 3 million of us were born elsewhere. I'm one of them. We're a city that's proud of our immigrant heritage."
Mamdani went further, accusing the Court and the Trump administration of normalized "cruelty" toward Haitian New Yorkers
"We have seen a cruelty that has become normalized, and to have people who taught the world about freedom have their own freedom put in jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and a federal administration — it is not only cruel, it's something that we will not ever accept."
Exactly what "everything that we can" means remains to be seen. TPS is a federal immigration designation administered by the Department of Homeland Security, not local governments. Thursday's ruling makes clear that, absent a constitutional violation, those decisions largely belong to the executive branch and Congress rather than the federal courts.
That leaves New York free to offer city services and legal assistance, but not to determine who receives or retains federal immigration protections. The Supreme Court has spoken. Congress writes the law. The executive branch enforces it. None of those are Zohran Mamdani. Whether his defiance amounts to anything more than a rally speech will depend on what steps, if any, he's actually willing to take, and what the Trump administration does when he tries.
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This is what you get when non-American clowns elect a fascist NAZI Pig as your mayor. Elections have consequences you morons.
a commie talking about freedom!
amazing
how about landlords freedom to set their own rents!!!!
This is what you get when non-American clowns elect a fascist NAZI Pig as your mayor. Elections have consequences you morons.
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Meh...they Feds can squash this mayor like a bug if they want. They need to get the narrative back onto immigration enforcement and away from foreign policy botches.
Sounds like sedition to me.
J6 his a$$
The jackass needs to shut up and let the SCOTUS DO THEIR JOB. Americans didn’t elect his goatsmelling ass. Just look at the feces standing behind him at his press conference. Not one American in the crowd.
“Not everyone in New York was sympathetic. NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) called it outright secession, writing on X that Mamdani ‘considers New York an independent city-state” that doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the federal government, and warned that he and the DSA “will use the power of this city to wage a soft civil war against the nation itself.’”
Cut off all Federal dollars to NYC. Let them run their own clown show!
Can that be done? Anyone?
I agree.
TRAITOR
The ongoing civil war is ongoing.
Mayors can still be arrested.
ISLAMamdani has a different agenda. It’s not for the good of NYC or the republic.
Jacobin lawlessness = anti-Christ Spirit
Now we have to stop the sanctuary city cr**.
Why does the article refer to him as mayoral “nominee?”
Even if that happens he and his cronies will live well. The only people who will suffer might be pensioners.
What needs to happen is the state go in and decertify the city government. Who ever that won’t happen with Hochul in charge.
TPSers have work permits
now they are illegals
what will the employers do?
What part of the word “Temporary” in “Temporary Protected Status” do they not understand?
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