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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a firm stance against federal immigration raids, declaring that ICE agents will not be allowed to enter New York City properties such as schools or hospitals without a judicial warrant. He described the executive order as a reinforcement of existing sanctuary policies aimed at protecting public safety and the privacy of all New Yorkers, regardless of citizenship status.

Mamdani said the directive also creates an inter-agency crisis response system to ensure full compliance across city departments. He argued the measures are motivated by safety, not politics, and accused federal enforcement tactics of spreading fear in immigrant communities, setting up a direct confrontation with the Trump administration.

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00:00We do not allow ICE agents into city properties such as a school or a hospital without a judicial
00:06warrant signed by a judge, as well as additional directives to ensure full compliance with these
00:12policies across every city agency. The Department of Homeland Security is
00:17shouting off about your executive order today. They said that it's going to make New Yorkers
00:23less safe as a direct result of the policy, and they say there are 7,000 migrants who are in the
00:29custody of New York's jurisdiction with an active detainer and that you should not release them.
00:34What's your message to the secretary? My message to everyone is that these are policies that keep
00:40New Yorkers safe. These are policies that are motivated by delivering public safety, not in
00:45spite of public safety. And today's executive order was in part a restatement of existing city policy
00:52about the fact that we do not allow ICE agents into city properties such as a school or a hospital
00:58without a judicial warrant signed by a judge, as well as additional directives to ensure
01:03full compliance with these policies across every city agency, the directive to create an interagency
01:11apparatus that can respond in times of sudden crisis, and to take every measure we can to protect
01:18New Yorkers' privacy. Those are the things that keep New Yorkers safe. Safety is what we're
01:22motivated by, that's what we're going to deliver. Thank you.
01:26Mr. Mayor, have you considered asking New Yorkers to call 9-1-1 directly instead of 3-1-1 to avoid all of those
01:34crops and to create a more urgent sense of having a call right now? And also, of the people that your
01:42clinicians, your officers have interacted with, you said you've made 27 involuntary
01:47questions. How many people have they interacted with where they said, no, that person does have a
01:53capacity to decide, I'm going to stay out on the street?
01:56So, I don't have that number for you. But on the first question, would you mind just restating
02:05that, Nicole? Oh, yes, yes. This has been a part of typical code blue policies. However, once we get to the end
02:14of this winter storm, we're going to be doing a full reflection as to what the city's policies have been
02:19thus far, what need to be changed. Thank you.
02:22Right behind you, I'm going to...
02:23Yeah, hi.
02:24Hey, how's it?
02:26It's Boris Herrmann from Germany's newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung.
02:30Hello.
02:31Hi. There's a growing debate in Europe
02:34about boycotting the Soccer World Cup in the United States, using some policies of the federal
02:40government, like Minneapolis, Greenland, you know that. So, as a former player of the
02:46Talking Headers, and also the city where a couple of games are played, what do you think about
02:52boycotts, and what would be an appropriate way to show for international soccer fans that
02:59are not happy with Canada?
03:01You said as a former player. I was wondering who it was going to be in reference to.
03:04And somehow it's me.
03:08I am incredibly passionate about the world's game. I am incredibly excited at the prospect
03:16of hosting the world here in this city and across this country for the most watched sporting event
03:24across the globe. And I also understand why many have shared their own critiques of policies that
03:34we're seeing across this country. I have engaged in that myself, in criticisms, especially around
03:40immigration enforcement, as we've been speaking about today. And I know that you referenced as one
03:43of the motivators of that. I will leave it to others to make their own determinations. What I will say,
03:48however, is that we are very excited here in New York City to welcome the world and to show that not
03:53only is this a city where the world is at home, but it's also a city where much of the world has found
03:57a home. And that those New Yorkers are so excited at the prospect of seeing every single part of
04:02themselves reflected in, hopefully, what will be an incredible tournament.
04:06You guys have a good one more question.
04:08Hi, Mayor. So, we checked out a couple of warming centers today. At one of them, the bus was not there.
04:13We circled the block. Another one had very minimal signage and, like, two people on board.
04:18Another one also had minimal signage. So, when will that clear additional signage be put up?
04:22And then what's the protocol of the warming bus is just not there?
04:25Well, a warming bus should be exactly where it's supposed to be. And signage is something that ever
04:30since it's been brought up to us, that has actually been in progress for us to put up that
04:35signage to make clear in every possible way where this is. The other part of what I mentioned earlier
04:40today is that we are now adding in as a tool into Link NYC kiosks, where not only can New Yorkers
04:48make a call directly to 311 to inform them of a homeless individual that's in need of help,
04:52but also there will be a way in which to find a list of warming centers as well.
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