Not even in Gracie Mansion yet, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is once again courting controversy with the release of a recent video on federal immigration enforcement operations.
The top-line theme of the video (“know your rights”) sounds reasonable enough. What’s wrong with knowing your rights?
But in context, the video’s message is far more sinister: an endorsement of resistance to the enforcement of duly enacted federal immigration law, as well as tacit encouragement of chaotic, disruptive, and potentially violent clashes between anti-Trump activists and immigration-enforcement authorities…