Mamdani demands an end to ICE

Trump administration rejects Mamdani demand to freeze ICE after Bronx shooting

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pressed President Trump to halt ICE operations and free a shot illegal immigrant after a Bronx arrest, and Homeland Security shut the door.

Federal immigration officers wounded a 28-year-old Dominican national during a targeted arrest in New York City’s Marble Hill section of the Bronx, then faced an immediate political push from City Hall to stand down.

Hours after the shooting, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had spoken with President Donald Trump and demanded an end to ICE enforcement in the city plus the man’s release. Neither demand was met.

Politico reported that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin answered the mayor at a Friday press conference by rejecting any freeze and blaming local priorities that put offenders ahead of residents.

A five-year-old boy was in the car when agents fired. The child was unharmed. The 28-year-old man was shot in the neck and later held in federal custody.

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In a two-page order, U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken, an Obama appointee, ruled that the man — whom police identified as Oscar Belgal but who was named in a court document as Oscar Bergal — cannot be removed from the United States without a court order while his petition challenging his detention remains pending.

Mamdani the Globalist

Mamdani urges America to join ICC and enforce Netanyahu warrant on Theo Von podcast

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for the US to join the ICC and arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, branding him the architect of a horrific genocide on Theo Von’s podcast.

The New York Post reported that the mayor made the remarks in an interview that aired Thursday on the comedian’s “This Past Weekend” show. Mamdani told host Theo Von the federal government should sign on to the International Criminal Court and carry out its orders against every target.

He put it this way:

"I believe that the US government should join the ICC. It should enforce its warrants for everyone,"

When the conversation turned to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mamdani went further.

"When you ask about the prime minister, we’re talking about the architect of a horrific genocide." He added that if the choice were his, Washington would already have joined the court and honored every warrant it has issued. Von answered, “F, k yeah.”

The International Criminal Court claims 124 member states and says it can prosecute crimes by nationals of those states or crimes committed on their territory. The United States and Israel are not members and do not recognize its jurisdiction. In 2024 the court issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

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Major global powers—including the United States, Russia, and China—are not members. They are their own sovereign nations--an independent political entity that has supreme authority and self-determination to govern its own internal and external affairs without foreign control.

Rama Duwaji at Islamic Retreat

NYC first lady joins luxury Islamic retreat whose organizers pushed to abolish Israe

New York City’s first lady Rama Duwaji is wrapping up a week as artist-in-residence at a Portuguese castle retreat whose organizers have repeatedly called for abolishing Israel and “cleansing” the land of Jews.

Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is finishing a stint with Women Sanctuary at the Paço da Glória near Porto, an 18th-century castle now used as a high-end hotel and event space. The Washington Free Beacon reported she is listed on the group’s site as a team member under the name “Karl Holland” and is believed to be leading Arabic calligraphy work during the second session of the month.

The same organization has a documented record of hard-line anti-Israel messaging on Instagram. That record now sits beside the first lady of America’s largest city, weeks into her husband’s mayoralty and after he rolled out a strategy to combat antisemitism that many Jewish New Yorkers rejected.

Five nights in a private room at the retreat list for roughly $5,216. Shared rooms run about $4,300. The setting is not a community center. It is a Portuguese castle roughly an hour from Porto, marketed as luxury Islamic wellness.

Mamdani and AOC at 9/11 Memorial

 

Zohran attends 9/11 Memorial

Mamdani defies 9/11 families, attends Ground Zero ceremony over mourners' objections

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up at the 25th anniversary 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero on Friday despite a petition signed by more than 110,000 people, and the families who lost loved ones in the Twin Towers were not shy about telling him he was unwelcome.

Mourners at the memorial in Lower Manhattan told Fox News Digital they found the mayor's presence disrespectful and offensive, citing his association with streamer Hasan Piker, who once said America "deserved 9/11", and his appointment of Ramzi Kassem, an attorney who previously represented a Guantánamo detainee linked to an al Qaeda terrorist plot, as his administration's chief counsel.

Walter Matuza, a Staten Island resident whose father was killed on September 11, 2001, helped initiate the petition demanding Mamdani stay away. The elder Matuza worked at the Carr Futures brokerage on the 92nd floor of the north tower, where dozens of his colleagues died when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. His son's reaction to the mayor's decision was blunt.

"He showed up anyway. It does bother us."

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Family-run Grocers in NYC want fairness

Why Family-Run Grocers Are Suing New York Over City-Run Stores

A coalition of small-business owners is suing for antitrust violations and predatory pricing after the city promised to provide food staples for 30 percent off.

Josefina Aguirre grew up among the piñatas hanging from the ceiling of Little Mexico Meat Market, the store her parents opened in New York City’s El Barrio in 1997, three years after her father crossed the border from Mexico at 17.

She has a bachelor’s degree in business management, a qualification her parents, Oscar and Guadalupe Aguirre, insisted on. But she came back to work at the store anyway—to the same three coolers of fresh cheese and cilantro, the same shelves of jalapeños and tomatillos, and the same customers who still bring in their mail so she can read it to them in English.

The store has survived the opening of a Costco nearby. It survived COVID-19, barely. Her father caught the virus and died before he ever got to enjoy the retirement he had worked 28 years for.

Now, Aguirre and her sisters, who run the shop together, are bracing for what they see as the biggest threat yet: a city-subsidized grocery store that can sell a $10 steak for $7, because, unlike them, it doesn’t have to turn a profit.

“We’re not scared of competition,” Aguirre told The Epoch Times on Aug. 29 from behind the counter in Spanish Harlem. “We just want fair competition.”

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Mamdani pushing politically motivated targeting of small buinesses with Executive Order

Mayor Mamdani launches taxpayer-funded office to push unionization across New York City

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order creating a new city office dedicated to helping private-sector workers unionize, drawing sharp criticism from small-business advocates who say the government has no place tipping the scales.

The Mayor's Office of Worker Power, announced Monday, will hold hearings on workplace issues, draft policy proposals, distribute information about workers' rights, and connect employees directly with union-organizing groups.

Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, tapped Tony Perlstein, a former dockworker, union organizer, and onetime deputy director of communications at the Center for Popular Democracy, a national left-wing organizing group, to run the operation. Perlstein will report to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, who previously served as a cabinet official under President Joe Biden.

The office's budget has not been disclosed. City Hall has not said how many additional staff members will be hired beyond Perlstein. And the executive order's full text has not been published, leaving business owners and taxpayers with more questions than answers about how far the new office's reach will extend.

Mamdani's order empowers agencies to investigate businesses without a single complaint Beyond creating the new office. Mamdani's executive order directs three city agencies, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and the Commission on Human Rights

They will develop what the order calls "directed investigation procedures" for workplace violations and "other predatory practices" even when no complaint has been filed.

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Mamdani not wanted at 9/11 Memorial

66k petitioners don't want Mamdani at the 9/11 memorial but he says he' going

Families of 9/11 victims are demanding New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stay away from the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero, and a resurfaced 2023 social media post is fueling the pressure.

Giovanni Galante lost his wife Grace on September 11, 2001. Now he is leading a petition drive that has drawn tens of thousands of signatures calling on ceremony organizers to block Mamdani from participating in the commemoration this September.

The petition, hosted on Change.org, cites Mamdani's public record, his association with online commentator Hasan Piker, and what families describe as a pattern of minimizing the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Mamdani says he plans to attend anyway. His office did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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Markwayne arrests more than 2100 criminals across New York

DHS Secretary Mullin rips New York leaders after Operation Rotten Apple nets over 2,100 arrests

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced more than 2,100 arrests of convicted criminals across New York State in a single month, and laid the blame for their presence squarely on the governor and mayor who refused to cooperate.

Mullin held a press conference at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in New York City on September 1, 2026, unveiling the results of a federal enforcement sweep called Operation Rotten Apple. The operation ran for 33 days, from July 27 through August 29, and ICE agents arrested 2,197 illegal immigrants statewide, without help from city or state law enforcement.

The secretary did not explain why the federal government had to act alone. He named New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul directly, accusing both of shielding violent offenders from federal immigration enforcement through sanctuary policies and deliberate obstruction.

Mullin calls out Mamdani's $22 million NYPD budget cut--"Operation Rotten Apple was initiated because New York City has a liberal, socialist mayor who, instead of working with law enforcement, tried to cut NYPD's budget by $22 million and refused to cooperate with federal law enforcement.

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Duwaji to travel to Portugal for third Islamic Retreat

NYC first lady Rama Duwaji heads to Portugal for third luxury Islamic retreat of 2026

New York City's first lady is set to spend nearly two weeks at a posh Islamic calligraphy retreat in the Portuguese countryside this September, her third European getaway with the same organization this year, while critics say she has shown more interest in overseas travel than in the city her husband governs.

Rama Duwaji, the 29-year-old wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will serve as "artist-in-residence" at a "Journey through Islamic Calligraphy" retreat hosted by The Women Sanctuary at a manor house in Arcos de Valdevez, near Porto, Portugal. The retreat runs two sessions, September 16, 21 and September 25, 30, and costs attendees between $4,300 for a shared room and $5,260 for a private room with a private bathroom, the New York Post reported.

The manor's amenities include a heated outdoor pool, a heated indoor pool, and landscaped gardens. The retreat's website promises days spent "exploring the rich history of Islam in Portugal" alongside calligraphy workshops, picnics, poolside hangouts, and walks, all wrapped in language about "spiritual reflection" and "suhbah," an Arabic term for spiritual companionship.

Three Islamic retreats in three months, and a September packed with travel--

The Portugal trip marks Duwaji's third Women Sanctuary retreat in 2026. She attended the first on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca over the Fourth of July weekend, skipping America's 250th birthday celebration. The second ran July 9, 14 in Corsica, France, honoring what the organization described as "the legacy of Mary, the most honored woman in the Quran."

Duwaji is also slated to visit Lebanon and Syria at some point in September, though the specific dates have not been disclosed. Both countries sit on the U.S. State Department's "Do Not Travel" list for Americans.

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A $9 billion promise built on a $6 billion budget

NYC childcare providers still waiting on six-figure payments as Mamdani's free pre-K expansion stumbles before day one

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's flagship universal childcare program faces an embarrassing debut, providers contracted to open classrooms on September 10 say the city has not sent the advance payments they need to hire staff, buy supplies, or even fix the plumbing.

Across Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn, directors of small daycare centers told the New York Post they are draining personal savings, maxing out credit lines, delaying staff paychecks, and skipping their own salaries to keep doors open, all while City Hall and the Comptroller's office trade blame over unregistered contracts.

The result: the city's 2-K, 3-K, and pre-K programs, the centerpiece of Mamdani's 2025 campaign, risk opening without teachers, without supplies, and without the trust of the very operators the system depends on.

The payment delays land at a moment when the financial credibility of Mamdani's entire childcare agenda is already under scrutiny. A nonpartisan study by the Center for New York City Affairs found that the program will cost roughly $9 billion annually, about 50 percent more than the $6 billion Mamdani promised on the campaign trail.

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NYC Democrat Socialist Rent Advisor is a deadbeat tenant

The daughter of a famed music studio owner is being sued for allegedly squatting in a New York City apartment for years

She has refused to pay rent to her Black landlord for four years...drove him into bankruptcy

Tracy Rosenthal, the 39-year-old daughter of Steve Rosenthal, has been on a 'rent strike' for the last four years after moving back to the city from Los Angeles.

Rosenthal claimed during a North Carolina Democratic Socialists meeting that her two-bedroom $2,300 apartment in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was riddled with cockroaches, the New York Post reported.

Tracy Rosenthal has no official title in communist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office. Her informal title is “Rent Advisor,” which is interesting considering the fact that she’s a deadbeat who hails from a wealthy show business family and has not paid her rent in four years.

According to the Post, Rosenthal's landlord, Adetunji Akinboboye, lost at least $108,000 from her unit alone and he lost the building to foreclosure in 2023. 'We've been on rent strike ever since,' she championed.

Now it belongs to the Bank and now she faces legal action and eviction from the building. New owners, US Bank, who claim that she and at least two other tenants have 'squatted on the premises,' records filed in November claim, court documents viewed by the Daily Mail claim.

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Temporary Protected Status was always TEMPORARY - Now affirmed

New York City fires Haitian municipal workers after courts uphold TPS termination

Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged that New York City dismissed dozens of Haitian employees who lost work authorization after federal courts cleared the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status, a program the government itself defines as never meant to be permanent.

Mamdani's office released a statement Friday confirming that the city reviewed the work authorization of Haitian TPS holders on its payroll and separated from those who could not show an alternative legal right to work. The mayor framed the move as compelled by federal law, not chosen by City Hall, a distinction that did little to soften the outcome for the workers who lost their jobs.

The dismissals followed two court decisions that, together, removed every remaining legal obstacle to the Trump administration's decision to end Haiti's TPS designation.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June in Mullin v. Doe that the administration could proceed, and on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, a Biden appointee, lifted the stay that had kept the termination order on hold while courts reviewed it.

Mamdani also offered free legal help and said city staff would walk affected Haitians through their options.

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New York’s Property Tax Crackdown Is Just the Beginning

Mamdani's administration sued on wealth tax

New York City homeowners file suit over Mamdani administration's chaotic pied-à-terre tax rollout

A group of New York City property owners has taken Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration to court, alleging that the rollout of the city's new pied-à-terre tax has been so badly mismanaged that ordinary homeowners are being swept up in a levy designed for the ultra-wealthy.

The lawsuit targets the implementation of a tax that was supposed to hit luxury second homes valued above $5 million. Instead, according to the plaintiffs, the city's Department of Finance cast a wildly overbroad net, sending inaccurate tax notices to homeowners who do not owe the tax and publishing their personal information in a searchable public database.

The case raises sharp questions about whether City Hall prioritized political spectacle over competent governance.

The combination of the overbroad database, the inaccurate notices, and the mayor's own inflammatory public posture toward property owners created the conditions for the lawsuit now before the court. 

The plaintiffs allege that the administration's rollout was not merely sloppy but caused real harm to homeowners who were wrongly identified, publicly listed, and incorrectly billed.

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Mamdani's tax on 2nd home luxury real estate market

Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax is one month old — and Manhattan's luxury market is already paying the price

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new tax on high-end second homes took effect July 1, and real estate brokers say it is already freezing buyers, inflating the luxury rental market, and pushing wealthy purchasers out of New York City altogether.

A month into the policy, the picture emerging from Manhattan's brokerage offices is blunt: international buyers are walking away from signed deals, sellers are listing properties they once planned to keep, and six-figure-a-month rental units are filling up with people who would have bought if the city had not added a new annual bill on top of already steep property taxes.

The tax applies to second homes valued above $5 million, starting at a 4-percent annual rate and climbing to 6.5 percent under the first phase of the plan. A second phase, set for the 2028, 29 tax year, will change how the levy is calculated, details the city has not yet made public.

The policy's supporters frame it as a way to make billionaire absentee owners pay their share. But the brokers who move these properties every day describe something different: a market recoiling from a tax that adds hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual carrying costs to units that already generate enormous revenue for the city treasury.

A Madrid buyer walked away from an $8.9 million condo in eleven days.

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Eleven Treasonous DSA Losers support Chinese socialism

DSA members sign pledge to 'support' and 'defend' Chinese socialism as party's ties to Beijing deepen

About a dozen activists from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Democratic Socialists of America have publicly pledged to "support" and "defend" China, the latest sign of a deepening relationship between the DSA and the Chinese Communist Party.

The signatories, approximately eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members, put their names to a declaration hosted by Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group that has collected 952 total signatures for its pro-Beijing pledge.

The New York Post identified the DSA members among the signatories after The Times of London first reported on the list.

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Stupid headline to this article--There are 8 billion people in the world and only about 8.58 million people in New York City. So the world has 11 losers from the United States so far.

Top Democrats turning against Mamdani

Clinton and Obama veterans Kal Penn and Rahm Emanuel turn on NYC Mayor Mamdani over taxes and Israel

Two heavyweight Democratic strategists from the Clinton and Obama eras are publicly rebuking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, one over a property-tax plan that could hit nearly a million homeowners, the other over the mayor's inflammatory rhetoric on Israel.

Mark Penn, the longtime pollster and adviser to President Bill Clinton, and Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's former White House chief of staff and a former mayor of Chicago, each went after Mamdani this week in pointed, separate broadsides that landed on social media and a podcast.

The criticisms cut across two of the self-described democratic socialist mayor's most controversial moves: a proposed pied-à-terre tax backed by a searchable public database of property owners, and Mamdani's past use of the phrase "from the river to the sea."

Fox News Digital reported that none of the three principals, Penn, Emanuel, or Mamdani's office, responded to requests for comment before publication.

The twin attacks matter because they come from inside the Democratic house. Penn and Emanuel are not Republican operatives. They are veteran party figures who helped elect two Democratic presidents.

When they publicly break with a sitting Democratic mayor, it signals that Mamdani's brand of progressive governance is alienating even the party's own establishment wing.

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Mamdani: "We should reconcile and repair this legacy of slavery, stolen wealth and discrimination.”

Mamdani Won’t Rule Out Cash Reparations For New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leaving the door wide open to taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery in America’s largest city.

The democratic socialist mayor refused to rule out cash payments when pressed during an interview with The Root’s Charles Blow, instead saying he would wait for the recommendations of an ongoing city study.

Blow asked Mamdani directly whether he would support cash reparations if the commission endorsed them.

“First, I want to say that I stand by what I submitted. It’s the truth. It’s not a personal assessment,” Mamdani responded, according to an official City Hall transcript.

“We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country,” he continued. “Here in New York City, we were very complicit. And so I look forward to whatever those findings are.”

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Mamdani - arresting Netanyahu