Zohran Mamdani: “ICE is a modern creation. It's. I'm older than ICE.”

“I mean, how would you do it without Immigration Customs Enforcement? You do it with a little bit of humanity. You know, immigration existed long before ice. ICE is a modern creation. It's. I'm older than ICE. and the idea that we could not enforce immigration without an entity like this, it speaks to the fact that we're losing sight of our history for how we have actually engaged.” (22:10–22:14)

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