Talk about bad medicine.
Members of Zohran Mamdani’s political party taught nurses how to work against NYPD and ICE in an extraordinary session on Monday night.
The Post exclusively obtained audio of what was supposed to be a briefing for striking nurses at Mount Sinai in the city. Instead, they were given a two-hour, 18-minute lecture from Democratic Socialists of America organizers.
The DSA representatives launched radical ad hominem attacks against ICE, calling their officers “’roided up” slamming the NYPD as “not trustworthy,” and saying their $14 billion budget was too high.
Many of the 1,600 nurses who joined were left scratching their heads as to what this had to do with getting them back to work.
As one source told The Post, many were “disgusted” New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) union leadership was emphasizing anti-ICE policy over contract needs while their livelihoods and health insurance are on the line.
The session was led by attorney Leemah Nasrati, who opened the session by invoking protester Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Officer in Minneapolis, noting he was a nurse.
The main thrust of their program — which Nasrati said she also presented to doctors and nurses at Elmhurst Hospital — was to inform participants of ICE’s legal reach, how to identify ICE agents, stymie them and film interactions.
“What is ICE and what the f—k are they doing?” asked Nasrati.
Of the federal agency, formed in 2003 following the 9/11 attacks, she added, “It is younger than the cinematic masterpiece ‘Shrek’,” which was released in 2001.
“ICE is not inevitable. Most, if not all of us, have lived in a world without ICE.”
Nasrati was joined by DSA trainer Dominic Schlossberg, whose day job is at NYC Council but said he “came to this work,” in his personal time, over the summer.
In one section on how to identify ICE officers and distinguish them from other law enforcement entities, Schlossberg took unnecessary cheap shots at the entire agency.
He noted that ICE agents wear plain clothes and may or may not have a badge on their chest.
“Other than that, they look like they only do chest and abs,” said Schlossberg. “They never do leg day. It’s reasonable to think if you see someone on the street who looks like they are ‘roided up, it could be an ICE agent.”
At one point, Nasrati chimed in to say she is “jealous” only Schlossberg was able to see participants sending their messages and reaction to the presentation.
“I want to see how many people are saying, ‘F—k ICE’,” Nasrati said gleefully.
Quite tellingly, the union zoom session, which had been billed as a “strike briefing” dwindled to about 400 attendees before its conclusion, the hosts noted.
Nasrati also brought up the swell of protesters who swarmed ICE as they conducted an operation on Canal Street back in November. She described the protesters as “trying to intervene,” adding that the “NYPD will put up barricades to make it easier for ICE.”
“It’s better to assume the NYPD is not trustworthy in general, but certainly on [cooperating with ICE],” she said.
Sources said many of the nurses on the call were outraged by political organizers being brought in who disparaged the NYPD — which has been supportive of them.
When Nasrati was asked if the NYPD worked with ICE, she explained they could not, because New York is a sanctuary city, where local law enforcement does not enquire about immigration status when arresting people.
She noted such policies have only strengthened since Zohran Mamdani took office Jan. 1, but said she was wary of him keeping on mayor Eric Adams’ police commissioner.
“Jessica Tisch as Commissioner, not my favorite thing Mamdani has done, keeping her there,” said Nasrati. “But she has consistently messaged to her officers that they are not to, like, perform ICE duties for them.”
The DSA portion was organized by Mount Sinai emergency department nurse and union organizer KA Char Hogan
Her LinkedIn states she is “passionate about contributing to liberation through racial justice based and trans-affirming healthcare.”
Nurses on the call are fighting for a fair contract, yet their union leadership is shamelessly bringing them anti-ICE, anti-cop programming. But it shows how unions have introduced pernicious radicalizing propaganda to their ranks and allowed it to fester.
On Monday, in the wake of the fatal shooting Pretti, the National Nurses United released a statement: “Nurses demand the immediate abolition of ICE.”
In response to a request for comment from The Post, the NYSNA sent a link to a press release headlined: “Striking nurses demand ICE out of hospitals.”
Schlossberg declined to comment, while Nasrati and Hogan did not respond.
With dangerous and partisan messaging like this, is it any wonder that two weeks ago, NYPD plainclothes detectives were reportedly hassled by the ER staff at NYU Langone Cobble Hill, who mistook them for ICE agents?
Or why some healthcare providers have thought it prudent to take to social media and wish harm on ICE officers, or refuse to treat Trump supporters.
Showing the lens Nasrati sees the world through, during her presentation she went on to explain the Laken Riley Act, expressing disappointment for it gaining broad bipartisan support when it was voted into law last January.
“Laken Riley, as some of you might know, was a young woman who was tragically murdered by a person, who among many other identifiers, was an undocumented immigrant,” said Nasrati.
“The Right really seized an opportunity to focus on one piece of the person’s identity and make it punitive for immigrants across the country.”
Laken’s killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, was an illegal alien from Venezuela who had been arrested at the border in 2023 and marked for deportation, but — remarkably — was instead let into the country by lax border officials.
He was then arrested in New York City in 2023 and again should have been booted out of the country, but was enabled by sanctuary laws to move to Georgia, where he violently murdered Riley, an innocent American woman out for a jog in February 2024.
Nasrati also conveniently omitted how Riley was a nursing student and, had she lived, could have been one of their colleagues today. Or that Riley was far from the only innocent American killed by an illegal immigrant during the Biden administration.
Nasrati seemed more interested in the humanity and many “identifiers” of Ibarra — and how it affects other people breaking the law in a country where they have no business being.
Instead, she exhibited a lack of respect for the people tasked with maintaining law and order in New York City.
While explaining the growth of ICE’s national budget under Trump, reportedly up to $85 billion, she shamelessly took a swipe at the NYPD.
“For context, NYPD’s budget is $14 billion, which is absurdly too high,” she said.
All of this to healthcare workers simply fighting for a fair wage — many of whom, I’d venture to guess, are either married to or have cops in their family.
Nasrati also made her disdain for our country’s founders equally known.
“Of all the things the so-called founding fathers f—ked up, they were right that it’s messed up to have the government come into your house,” she said.
It all begs the question: If this country is so bad, why are people breaking the law to enter and remain here? And why are all of these DSA lunatics trying to prevent these illegal immigrants from being deported from this hell on earth?
Speaking of not belonging, these radical socialists had no place on these important briefings.
And the source said rank and file members of the NYSNA are considering challenging union leadership, whose priorities don’t seem to be getting nurses a better contract, but instead taking part in a political fight.
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