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LIVE: Zohran Mamdani gives a speech on America's 250th anniversary

Published July 3, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:25

A place each of us has the power to make. The harbor was busy those years as ships poured in from around the world. Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty. Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown. Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island. Jewish people escaping pogroms, Italians fleeing poverty, Syrians seeking economic opportunity. (04:25–04:31)

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Asserts that the Irish famine was caused by imperial cruelty.

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