Zohran Mamdani: “Standing up for our sanctuary city policies, putting funding…”

“And that's the kind of fight we have to bring in this country in this moment. A fight that means in New York City, Standing up for our sanctuary city policies, putting funding towards legal representation of New Yorkers in detention proceedings increases the likelihood they'll be home with their family by 11 fold. And knowing that this isn't intellectual. This is something that is the difference between a New York City public high school student like Dylan being hundreds of miles away in an ICE detention facility or back home with his mother and his two siblings.” (01:34–01:48)

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