Zoran Mamdani

We need not accept suffering as unchangeable.

We need not treat hatred as the natural state.

The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.

Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.

So glad tidings to the strangers.

God bless America, be it Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador

Friends and neighbors.

Sons.

Fathers.

They're Little League coaches and veterans.

They're people who love this country.

These are Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Extreme weather is not a personal failure, but it is a public responsibility.

If we have the resources to act, we have the obligation to act.

These are programs for every single New Yorker.

These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children.

All of those children are New Yorkers.

They should all be enrolled in pre-K and 3K, no matter where they were born or where they come from.

What's he doing?

This is deeply alarming, especially given the deep meaning and the history of the institution to so many in New York and around the world.