Zohran Mamdani: “I'm one of the first immigrant mayors in generations in our…”

“We are a part of this city. Eight and a half million people call this city home. More than 3 million are immigrants. I'm one of them. I'm one of the first immigrant mayors in generations in our city. But I'm not the first. There have been many before. And I think that what we see is in times of precarity, in times of scarcity, there are those who will tell us that we should blame our struggles on someone else.” (08:59–09:04)

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