{"id":418,"date":"2026-01-23T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:06:30","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-calls-for-abolishing-ice-as-anger-grows-over-renee-good-minneapolis-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for abolishing ICE as anger grows over Renee Good Minneapolis killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"egloos-content\">\n<p>New York City&#8217;s Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing widespread backlash after making calls to abolish ICE during a recent television interview.<\/p>\n<p>He joined a national debate that continues to grow after the tragic killing of Nicole Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/draft\/images\/body\/20260122\/20260122142425_14met-mamdani-fees-01-pfbm-articleLarge.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During the interview, Mamdani described the ICE agency as an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reasons for existence.<\/p>\n<p>They also accused it of terrorizing people instead of contributing to providing them with safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/draft\/images\/body\/20260122\/20260122142435_-1x-1.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body02\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ats-insert_ads-4-wrapper\" class=\"insert_ads insert_ads-6\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He also shared that he was so tired of waking up each day and seeing another image of someone getting dragged out of their vehicle, or dragged out of their life.<\/p>\n<p>This is why he made calls for a more humane immigration system to keep Americans safe, instead of adding to fear.<\/p>\n<p>The comments of the mayor met with widespread backlash after the killing of Good, which ignited more protests and intensified scrutiny of ICE agents around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body03\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ats-insert_ads-5-wrapper\" class=\"insert_ads insert_ads-8\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-info__yFPGQ\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-actions__pUmXJ\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New York City&#8217;s Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing widespread backlash after making calls to abolish ICE during a recent television interview. He joined a national <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=418\" title=\"NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for abolishing ICE as anger grows over Renee Good Minneapolis killing\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}