
New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is not waiting until he formally enters office in the new year to tackle the most volatile political issue facing America's biggest metropolis: the escalating war on immigration waged by the US federal government.
The Democratic-Socialist, who will become the city's youngest mayor in over a century, has immediately moved to inoculate New York's massive immigrant population against the rising threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.