Zohran Mamdani, 33, elected to the assembly of the New York State since 2021, proposes to transform the city into a reinforced sanctuary zone: end of all cooperation with the ICE, freeze of rents, free public transport, and creation of municipal food shops. He beat the former Governor Andrew Cuomo during the Democratic primaries on June 24.
His program worries the White House. Trump described it as “communist”, declaring: “He is a communist. And we don’t need communists in this country. “
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Even more worrying, Trump publicly questioned Mamdani’s legal status, naturalized in 2018 after arriving from Uganda in the 1990s. “We check if it is legally here. And if he is not, he will leave this country very quickly. “
Some Republican elected officials even envisage a procedure of forfeiture of nationality. Representative Andy Ogles said: “If someone lied about his loyalty to the United States or concealed communist opinions during his naturalization, his citizenship should be re-examined. “
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Faced with these threats, Zohran Mamdani reacted publicly on X: “The President of the United States has just threatened to stop, to withdraw my citizenship, to lock me in a detention camp and to deport me. Not because I committed a crime, but because I refuse that l’ICE terrorizes our city. We will not give in to this intimidation. “
New York State Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul denounced one “Unacceptable attack on a democratically invested elected official “. Several Democratic figures, including senator Kirsten Gillibrand, have alerted to one “political instrumentalization of immigration and citizenship laws “.
For his part, Trump threatened to cut all federal funding in New York City if Mamdani applied his program in the event of a victory. “”If it is elected and does what he says, we will cut the funds. All. They will have to fend for themselves. “
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