Mamdani’s $100 Million Deportation Defense Pledge Leaves NYC Lawmakers In Utter Disbelief
Jason Hopkins
Immigration Reporter
October 01, 2025
New York City lawmakers are staring in disbelief as leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani pledges to boost taxpayer funding for deportation defense by over $100 million dollars.
Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and self-described democratic socialist, has put forward a plan to turbocharge public spending on deportation defense for illegal migrants, pledging to more than triple the Big Apple’s current spending if elected to the mayor’s office. He’s touting the audacious proposal as local officials repeatedly warn that the city is walking a fiscal tightrope. (RELATED: Trump Admin Drastically Restricts Licenses For Migrant Truckers Amid Catastrophic Crashes)
“This is what we would get from a Mayor Mamdani: ripping millions in hard-earned taxpayer dollars away from legal citizens and handing it over to people who broke the law to be in our country,” NYC Council Member Inna Vernikov said to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“It’s impossible to fathom why anyone would vote to put Mamdani in Gracie Mansion when he so obviously has disdain for American citizens,” Vernikov added.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/01/gop-vows-defiance-on-deportation-defense/