Zohran Mamdani: “If the president wants to try and enact his promise to…”

“And if the president wants to speak and work on those specific issues, I am ready to speak and work with him, because New Yorkers are desperate for results on that. Now, If the president wants to try and enact his promise to create the largest deportation force in American history, then I will stand up and fight him every step of the way. Because this is a city where too many New Yorkers are living in fear at this moment. Fear of even leaving their apartments, at the prospect of being thrown up against a wall by an ice agent in a mask.” (04:49–04:58)

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