Overview
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has publicly called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and said the city will not cooperate with federal civil immigration enforcement.
- Mamdani has reiterated the abolition demand across recent media appearances, framing it as a moral argument and a test of the Democratic Party’s policy direction.
- He said he raised his objections about ICE’s actions directly with President Trump and described the agency as operating in a harmful, modern way that tears families apart.
- Mamdani’s position is chiefly political and rhetorical rather than a new municipal law, and it builds on long‑standing New York sanctuary practices that limit city assistance to federal immigration operations.
- The mayor has matched rhetoric with endorsements of candidates who back abolishing ICE, a move that could shape Democratic primaries and deepen local‑federal tensions over immigration enforcement while affecting immigrant communities’ exposure to civil immigration actions.