New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement based on a shooting in Texas about which he knows nothing. That is because Mamdani doesn’t care about New York City as much as he does about national political power.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE officers in Houston, and Democrats have rushed to set a narrative before the facts have come out. What we do know is that Araujo was driving recklessly while attempting to evade ICE vehicles, based on video. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Araujo allegedly “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.” Liberal media and Democratic politicians, meanwhile, have flocked to promote witnesses who argue otherwise.
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The problem with this is that we have examples of witnesses getting details wrong in the last two prominent ICE/Border Patrol shootings. Witnesses claimed that Renee Good was given contradictory orders before she hit an ICE officer with her car and was shot and killed, but video made it clear that she was unambiguously ordered to get out of her car before she attempted to speed off. Witnesses claimed that Alex Pretti was not resisting Border Patrol agents (while he was carrying a gun) before he was shot and killed, but video disproved that as well. At best, politically motivated witnesses allowed their bias to color their memories. At worst, they were lying.
That means that, for now, all we know is that Araujo was driving dangerously while trying to flee ICE officers. We won’t speculate what actually happened (though the trend clearly points in one direction), but that isn’t the issue here. Why is the mayor of New York City opining on this case, calling to “Abolish ICE,” based on an event of which he has no evidence in a city and state over 1,600 miles away?
There are a few reasons. For one, Mamdani — like every Democrat who supports “sanctuary” policies — wants more illegal immigrants to enter the country. Secondly, Mamdani hates law enforcement, whether that be New York City police officers (as proven by when he called them racist threats to public safety) or immigration enforcement. To get Mamdani’s idea of what the justice system should look like, look at his endorsement of Darializa Avila Chevalier, who wants to abolish both policing and prisons.
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Most importantly, though, is that Mamdani doesn’t care about New York City. His mayoral position is only important to him in that it allows him to exert political power on other issues that have no effect whatsoever on New Yorkers, such as his obsession with Gaza and “international law.” The mayor of New York City has nothing to do with a shooting in Houston (of which he has no details to even comment accurately on), but weighing in on this shooting is his way of imposing his agenda on the country, which would mean Texans and other border communities being forced to accept thousands of illegal immigrants flooding the border as they did during the Biden administration.
Mamdani knows nothing about this shooting, and his opinion would not be relevant anyway, given that it took place in Houston, but neither of those facts will stop him from trying to impose his pro-illegal immigration, anti-law enforcement agenda on the rest of the country.