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Indian Express
42 minutes ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Good luck with that': Trump's border czar hits back at Mamdani's anti-ICE plan for NYC
US President Donald Trump's immigration chief Tom Homan has issued a fiery challenge to Zohran Mamdani, the newly victorious NYC mayoral primary candidate, after Mamdani vowed to 'kick the fascist ICE out of New York City.' Responding on Fox Business' Kudlow a day after Mamdani's win, Homan scoffed, 'Good luck with that,' before adding: 'Federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute.' 'We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city and President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago, we're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities.' he said. Homan, tapped by Trump to spearhead his border crackdown, said agents would focus on areas 'releasing public safety threats and national security threats back to the street.' Trump's border czar asserted that if immigration enforcement officials can't arrest people in jail, they would 'find them' in neighbourhoods or work sites, adding, 'so game on, we're coming.' New: 🚨 Border Czar Tom Homan on Zohran Mamdani for wanting to protect illegal aliens who are p*dos and r*pists. 'Good luck. Federal law trumps him every day, hour, and minute. We're going to be tripling down in NYC.' 👊🏻 — Jay 🇺🇸 Rapid Response Guy (@RapidResponseXY) June 25, 2025 The warning comes amid rising tensions over immigration enforcement in the Big Apple. Mamdani, a Democratic socialist and Queens assemblyman, declared victory in the June 24 Democratic primary with a pledge to 'Trump-proof' the city. His campaign criticised Trump's use of ICE to target immigrant families, and he pledged sweeping changes to protect undocumented New Yorkers. But Homan made clear the administration has other plans: 'Not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we are going to increase worksite enforcement tenfold.' In contrast, Homan praised current Mayor Eric Adams for cooperating with ICE on 'significant public safety threats' and helping trace the 300,000 missing children trafficked across the US. He described Adams as a law-and-order mayor whose 'hands are tied in many ways.' Mamdani has clashed with Homan before. In March, he confronted him at the New York state Capitol and posted video of the encounter during his campaign. The Astoria politician was protesting ICE's arrest of anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, detained for allegedly lying on his visa application. Today I confronted 'border czar' Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump's bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil. — Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) March 12, 2025 Now, Homan says, the fight over immigration enforcement in New York City is far from over: 'We don't have this problem in Florida… so we're going to double up and triple up on New York.' Meanwhile, Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday: 'It's finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous.' Trump continued: 'He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the History of our Country!'
Mint
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Mint
Republicans call for Zohran Mamdani's deportation, question his citizenship over NYC mayoral candidate's anti-ICE stance
As Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, was announced winner over former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, Republicans have called for his deportation and sought probe into his citizenship status over NYC mayoral candidate's 'fascist' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stance. Zohran promises to expel it from the city properties. US President Donald Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan responded, stating, 'Good luck with that. It's game on', according to Fox News. Zohran's platform vows to 'kick the fascist ICE out' and bolster New York's sanctuary city protections by slashing cooperation with federal agents, increasing legal aid, and safeguarding immigrants' data. A statement on his campaign website reads, 'Zohran Mamdani will fight Trump's attempts to gouge the working class and deliver a city where everyone can afford a dignified life.' 'Good luck with that, federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute. 'We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city and President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago — we're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities," Homan warned him against it. Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has requested the federal government to revoke New York City mayoral candidate Mamdani of his US citizenship and begin deportation proceedings. Ogles posted images of a letter he sent to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, in which he urged the Department of Justice to investigate whether Mamdani's citizenship was obtained through "wilful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism" 'He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalisation proceedings," Ogles posted on X. He called Zohran 'an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York'. Homan believes ICE plans to ramp up operations in New York in response to concerns over public safety and national security. He stated that additional agents will be deployed and worksite enforcement efforts will be expanded 'tenfold'. Homan also drew a comparison between New York and Florida, asserting that collaboration with ICE is more effective in Republican-governed states. 'We don't have that problem in Florida, where the sheriffs work with us. So we're going to double up and triple up on New York. Not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we are going to increase worksite enforcement tenfold,' he added.
Hindustan Times
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Zohran Mamdani 'needs to be deported': Republicans over NYC mayoral candidate's anti-ICE stance
Calls for the deportation of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are growing louder among Republicans. While Mamdani himself has vowed to expel the 'fascist' US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out from the city properties. President Donald Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan warned against it, saying, 'Good luck with that.' New York mayoral candidate, State Rep. Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) speaks to supporters during an election night gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC on June 24, 2025 in the Long Island City neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York City. (AFP) 'It's game on,' Homan told Fox News, a day after Mamdani declared victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman from Queens and a Democratic socialist, had made immigration reform a central part of his campaign. His platform promises to 'kick the fascist ICE out' and strengthen New York's sanctuary city protections by cutting off cooperation with federal agents, boosting legal aid, and safeguarding immigrants' data. 'Zohran Mamdani will fight Trump's attempts to gouge the working class and deliver a city where everyone can afford a dignified life,' reads a statement on his campaign website. Homan responded by saying Mamdani's proposals carry no legal weight. 'Good luck with that, federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute,' Homan said. 'We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city and President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago — we're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities.' According to Homan, ICE operations will increase in New York due to concerns about public safety and national security. He said more agents would be deployed and worksite enforcement would be expanded 'tenfold.' Homan also compared New York to Florida, claiming that cooperation with ICE is smoother in Republican-led states. 'We don't have that problem in Florida, where the sheriffs work with us,' he said. 'So we're going to double up and triple up on New York.' He added, 'Not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we are going to increase worksite enforcement tenfold.' 'Little Muhammad' needs to be deported In the latest, Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles ignited a political firestorm this week after referring to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as 'little Muhammad' and calling for his deportation. 'He needs to be DEPORTED,' Ogles wrote on X (formerly Twitter). 'Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalisation proceedings.' In the same post, Ogles labeled Mamdani 'an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York.' The congressman escalated his rhetoric with a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging the Department of Justice to investigate whether Mamdani gained U.S. citizenship through fraud. He cited a 2017 rap lyric by Mamdani referencing the 'Holy Land Five' — individuals who led a Muslim charity shut down for illegally funding Hamas in 2008. Curbing ICE, Mamdani's one of many plans for New York While his pledge to remove ICE from city facilities has drawn national attention, it is just one part of a broader agenda. Mamdani's campaign also promises to establish city-run grocery stores, freeze rent hikes in rent-stabilised apartments, and make city buses free for all. He says these proposals would be funded through a $10 billion tax increase on large businesses and wealthy residents. Since 2021, Zohran Mamdani has served as a state assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens. His recent win in the Democratic mayoral primary suggests growing public support for his progressive platform in New York City.
Boston Globe
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
It may be a silent protest, but the message is loud and clear. And ‘temporary graffiti' is building a following.
'I'm coming to Boston, I'm bringing hell with me,' Homan In early March, on the night before Mayor Michelle Wu was due in Washington, D.C., to testify before Congress about the city's immigration policies, a group of activists had an answer for Homan. Advertisement 'You can't bring hell to Boston,' the artists projected in vintage typeface on the brick facade of the Old State House. 'It's been waiting for you since 1770.' Photographic evidence of the temporary installation quickly made the internet rounds. Get Love Letters: The Newsletter A weekly dispatch with all the best relationship content and commentary – plus exclusive content for fans of Love Letters, Dinner With Cupid, weddings, therapy talk, and more. Enter Email Sign Up The Silence Dogood display at the Old State House. Handout Not by happenstance, that day was the anniversary of the skirmish that came to be known as the Boston Massacre, when the colonists' disagreements with the British Parliament and King George III's occupying troops boiled over into deadly violence. That kind of link to this city's revolutionary past is what drives the folks behind Advertisement The group borrowed the name from the Boston native Benjamin Franklin, who used it as an alias early in his illustrious life. At 16, while apprenticing at his older brother's print shop, Franklin adopted the pen name after James Franklin declined to print his young sibling's letters in his weekly newspaper, the New-England Courant. A display on Old North Church. Aram Boghosian Benjamin Franklin imagined his alter ego to be a middle-aged widow, a defender of 'the Rights and Liberties of my Country' and 'a mortal Enemy to arbitrary Government & unlimited Power.' Silence is 'a bit of a busybody,' explained Diane Dwyer, who has become the default spokesperson for the Silence Dogood project. On a recent Friday afternoon, Dwyer sat in a shared artist space on the second floor of an old brick building in the Fort Point district. Scale models covered most flat surfaces; artists' renderings were pinned up across much of the available wall space. A display in Boston Harbor. Handout Dwyer, who grew up in Maryland, moved to Boston a few years ago, after earning a master's degree in narrative environments from the University of the Arts London. She has a background in theater, 'and I'm a huge history nerd,' she said. She was recently named a grant recipient of the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture's 'We're inviting people to write their own plaques,' Dwyer said. While she's currently compiling a database of Boston's existing markers — and noting the overwhelming prevalence of white men (there are, she says, as many references to Paul Revere as all women combined, and more than all Black people) — she still gets excited about making connections to the country's founding fathers. Advertisement A display on Faneuil Hall. Handout Silence Dogood's projections have featured statements attributed to George Washington ('The cause of Boston now is and always will be the cause of America,' projected in the water at the base of the Boston Tea Party Museum), Joseph Warren ('May our land be a land of liberty,' at the Bunker Hill Monument, on the site where Warren was killed), and, yes, the aforementioned silversmith Revere ('One if by land, two if by D.C.,' projected on the Old North Church, though that's not a direct quote). Silence Dogood's work at Old North Church on April 17, 2025. Mike Ritter The Rev. Dr. Matthew Cadwell, the vicar at Old North Church, didn't know about those projections until he saw them on 'The Rachel Maddow Show.' Silence Dogood's warning came during a busy week for the church, which doubles as an active Episcopal mission and a historical site. It was the 250th anniversary of Revere's famous ride. One of the projections borrowed from the last stanza of 'In the main, people were very enthusiastic about it,' Cadwell said over the phone. 'It was neat. It was a powerful capstone on that night of historic remembrance.' To stage the Silence Dogood protests, Dwyer borrows state-of-the-art projection equipment — and sometimes enlists production help — from the small circle of Boston creatives who specialize in outdoor art. At one 'activation,' an unexpected hailstorm sent volunteers scrambling to cover the expensive projector with their jackets. Advertisement Visual artists Jeff Grantz and Diane Dwyer are part of a grassroots group that uses high-powered projectors to beam protest messages on the facades of Boston historical buildings, reminding people of connections between Boston's revolutionary history and the present day. Ken McGagh for The Boston Globe In recent years, projection-mapping artists have fine-tuned the art of 'temporary graffiti.' Some say the practice of projection mapping as a form of protest took off during the Occupy demonstrations of 2011. During the first Trump administration, Another group, In Boston during the racial reckoning of 2020, some of the city's projectionists partnered with street artist Cedric Douglas after the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in the North End. They While redefining the nature of public protest, these artists have also been grappling with the unresolved debate about the legality of their protests. Some legal experts cite property rights and laws governing trespassing. Others argue that the right to free speech covers projections just as it does signs and banners. Arists Diane Dwyer and Jeff Grantz project a quotation from George Washington on the wall of a vacant Dorchester tire store on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Ken McGagh for The Boston Globe Dwyer and her colleagues talk often about their First Amendment right to protest and the potential collateral damage to the other work they do, for advertisers, art festivals, and more. Dwyer, who heads Advertisement For her, the commitment to activist work came into sharp focus on a Friday in May, when she watched the live feed of a 'They were speaking to the coordinated resistance without hemming and hawing,' Dwyer recalled. After another period of despair, she said — 'Who can remember the headline of the day?' — the Town Hall discussion fortified her. It also made her feel, for the first time, like she'd become a bona fide Bostonian. You just hope, she said, 'that we're not screaming into the void.' James Sullivan can be reached at .
Time Magazine
2 days ago
- Business
- Time Magazine
Trump Promotes 'Big Beautiful Bill' Hours After Big Setback
President Donald Trump stepped up his sales pitch for his 'one big beautiful bill' on Thursday, hosting an event at the White House dedicated to the sweeping legislation hours after it hit a major setback in the Senate. Despite standing in the East Room in front of dozens of Americans he said would benefit from the measure's tax cuts, Trump spent much of the time talking about the additional funding for border security in the bill. At one point, he brought his border security czar Tom Homan onto the stage to give an impassioned plea to Congress to pass the bill so that the Administration could hire 10,000 more deportation officers and 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and expand operations to deport more than 1 million people per year. 'What the hell is the matter with everybody up in Congress,' Homan said. 'Pass the bill, so we make this country safe, so we can stop the violence against ICE officers.' Hours earlier, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that several cost-cutting provisions in the bill violated Senate procedures, including a measure aimed at cutting $250 billion in Medicaid costs by cracking down on a state provider tax. The parliamentarian's ruling has forced Senate Republicans to reshape the bill and threatens to derail Trump's plan to sign it on July 4. The bill is the centerpiece of Trump's domestic agenda. At Thursday's event, he highlighted the extension of tax cuts passed during Trump's first term, vouchers for parents who want to home school their children or send them to private religious schools, a tax deduction on tips and farm equipment, and a lifting of estate taxes on family farms. Republicans hold narrow majorities in both the House and Senate and have faced pushback from members over the legislation, much of it over predictions that the measure would add trillions to the national debt. But some Republicans have expressed concern that the bill's changes to Medicaid would force millions from the program leaving them without health insurance. At one point, Trump claimed otherwise, saying, "We're cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill. And you're not going to feel any of it. And your Medicaid is left alone. It's left the same.' On border security, Trump said the bill's additional funds would triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and 'dramatically increase deportations to a bare minimum of 1 million illegal aliens per year.' ICE agents are 'tough,' Trump said, and he described the cities and towns inside the U.S. where ICE has stepped up its arrests of immigrants in the country illegally as 'war zones.' As he did during his campaign, he claimed that immigrants have left 'insane asylums' to come to the U.S. and conjured up the threat of the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter. 'They don't want to have Hannibal in our midst.' After Homan expressed frustration that the bill wasn't sailing through Congress and returned to his front row seat, Trump looked over at Homan and smiled. 'He got so angry he didn't shake my hand and look at me,' Trump said. Homan walked back up and shook Trump's hand. At the end of the event, Trump met with people in the audience. As he walked out, a reporter asked if Congress will be able to pass the bill by his July 4 deadline. 'We hope so,' he said.
