Zohran Mamdani: “The federal government has an immense amount of power to…”

“And yet I know that just blocks away from where I got that citizenship, where I was sworn in, is today Federal Plaza, where immigrants are terrified to go for their regular check ins. And we know that The federal government has an immense amount of power to inflict terror upon people across this country. And yet what we've seen from our current mayor is to build upon that power and allow the NYPD to often serve as accomplices to it.” (03:14–03:22)

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