Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for abolishing ICE during a gushing interview on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday.
The socialist mayor told the hosts he doesn’t see federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents doing anything to help public safety.
“I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani claimed deportation raids would “rip” the Big Apple apart.
“We are talking about people whose crimes simply seems 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,” Hizzoner argued.
The interview came one day after cohost Whoopi Goldberg railed about President Trump on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, hitting him over comments to the New York Times where he said white people were “very badly treated” after the civil rights act.
“When did it all go downhill for white guys?” Goldberg quipped to her audience Monday.
Goldberg joked repeatedly with the city’s new mayor throughout the segment – poking fun at her own inability to pronounce the Ugandan-born muslim’s name correctly.
“I’m dyslexic so it doesn’t look like what I’m seeing!” she said.
Mamdani also used his time on air to double down on calling the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent “murder” – and making it clear he would uphold the city’s sanctuary city laws in the face of threats of funding cuts from the Trump administration.
“What I’ve said is that our values and our laws – they’re not bargaining chips,” he said.
Mamdani had faced criticism during the 2025 mayoral campaign for a series of past statements critical of law enforcement, including a call to defund the police.
He has since apologized to officers for his past remarks– some of which were made as recently as 2020.
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