Mamdani Puts Out Spanish Language Video Advising Illegals on ‘Legal’ ICE Evasion
“At no point in this video is anyone urged to abide by the laws of the United States. Because it was not made for the benefit of the people of the United States.”
No matter how much he claims to be a mayor for “all” New Yorkers, at the end of the day, Zohran Mamdani will come down on the side of illegal aliens every single time.
If it wasn’t clear before, he made it clear in a “know your rights” video he released in December 2025, roughly a month before he was sworn in, that provided ICE evasion tips to illegal aliens in English, with Spanish subtitles.
“Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that looks like this and tell you that they have the right to arrest you. That is false. ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you have the right to remain silent,” he proclaimed at one point, as Legal Insurrection reported at the time.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants. pic.twitter.com/nuntRzgEwq
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 7, 2025
On Friday, Mamdani put out a similar video, except this time, he spoke in Spanish, and the subtitles were in English:
Mamdani explains that ICE agents cannot enter private spaces without a warrant and offers advice on how best to deal with an in-person encounter on the street.
“In a document, look for the words ‘United States District Court’ and a judge’s signature. You can ask the officers to pass the order under the door,” Mamdani says, adding, “If they do not have a judicial warrant, you can leave the door closed and say, ‘I do not consent to your entry.’”
“Second, you have the right to remain silent. If ICE stops you on the street, ask, ‘Am I free to go?’ If the agent says yes, walk away calmly. Speak with a lawyer before signing any documents or making any decisions about your immigration status or case,” he continued in the clip.
Watch:
If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know. pic.twitter.com/hrjL8JPLyr
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) October 23, 2026
The video was released amid an increased pushback among New York Democrats against ICE activity in the state in the aftermath of a shooting incident earlier this month, where federal immigration officers shot 28-year-old criminal illegal alien Oscar Belgal after reportedly attempting to evade arrest:
Belgal was shot and wounded by an ICE agent as he tried to evade arrest on a residential street near the Bronx border. His five-year-old son was in the back seat, a fact that Mamdani and the press used to score political points. [Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin later turned that argument back on them, making clear that while ICE agents did not know the boy was in the car, Belgal did. Yet he still chose to flee, putting his own son in danger.]
Afterward, Mamdani held a press conference where he tried to turn a law enforcement action into a stage for political grandstanding. He denounced ICE as “rotten to its core.” Referring to Belgal as a “New Yorker” and “our neighbor,” the irate mayor glossed over his lengthy rap sheet and allegations that he aimed his vehicle at law enforcement officers to call the shooting “an outrage.”
A few days later, Mamdani and over 100 of The Usual Suspects put out a letter demanding private parking garage owners stop providing ICE with staging access:
In a letter sent today, the mayor and elected officials urge more than a thousand owners and operators not to rent, lend or otherwise make their property available to ICE for their operations. They also call on property owners to tell the agency directly that it is not authorized to use their facilities.
The call comes one week after ICE agents surrounded a car on a crowded residential street in Marble Hill and fired multiple rounds at 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, striking him in the neck while his 5-year-old son also sat in the vehicle. The agents had reportedly been staging operations from a private parking lot a few blocks away. The incident is not isolated, for example, ICE has also operated out of two bank parking lots on Northern Boulevard in Queens and a garage on Morton Street in Manhattan.
Basically, the goal of Mamdani and other rabidly pro-open-borders Democrats is to make it so hard for ICE to do their jobs that they just give up and quit. It won’t happen, but that won’t stop Mamdani Inc. from trying, either.
Mamdani’s Spanish-language video prompted some pointed responses:
The Mayor of NYC is now openly advising people who are in our country illegally, in a foreign language, on how to best evade American men and women in law enforcement…
Realize where we are. https://t.co/7PANxw8zGD
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 23, 2026
At no point in this video is anyone urged to abide by the laws of the United States.
Because it was not made for the benefit of the people of the United States. https://t.co/0ilk9jFGf5
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) October 23, 2026
If you're here illegally, you're not a New Yorker. Period. https://t.co/I8nUXBN2BW
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) October 24, 2026
Unbelievable.
The Mayor of New York is openly helping illegal aliens evade @ICEgov and undermine the law.
Radical Democrats are doing EVERYTHING in their power to recreate Biden’s open border disaster. https://t.co/4aIpRrF0ib
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) October 23, 2026
The latest in a long series of Zohran Mamdani thinking that being mayor of a city gives him control over federal immigration enforcement https://t.co/yoA5RyRC1d
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) October 23, 2026
The Mayor of New York City is literally advising illegal immigrants on how to evade ICE instead of encouraging them to follow the laws of the United States. https://t.co/TpmMg2KqKV
— Elizabeth Weibel (@elfaddis) October 23, 2026
New Yorkers are paying a fortune in rent, struggling with the cost of living, and dealing with a thousand other problems.
And Mamdani is busy making videos about ICE.
New Yorkers deserve better than this bullshit. https://t.co/qJsVrsN3bY
— Ryan (@tslryn) October 23, 2026
Unfortunately, it will be three years before New Yorkers get a chance to try to vote out the guy 51% of them put in office.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Trump needs to mobilize the national guard to go into these cities after the election.
In saner days Greasy Mamdummy would have had a CIA bullseye target on his back. Now the commies tell the CIA when to jump, and how high.
Why would they vote him out? They are approving of him by majority in opinion polls.
The city lost any sense of rationality as the sane ones flee the crazies.
Communist turd.
Only one million of 7 million eligible voters voted
False. There were about 5.4M adult citizens eligible to vote. About 5.1M were registered, and 2.2M voted.
You know, “Somebody counted something.” is not real convincing. Otherwise it’s just team sport noise: “Tastes great!” “Less filling!”
I live in NYS. It’s not like I just believe any count, conclusion or outcome. I would like to know who’s lying at me this time.
So, I wonder, what’s the legal governance on spewing made up numbers? Does a govt official have a different standard? Perhaps in oficial vs personal capacity?
How much misdirection is covered by “to the best of my knowledge?”
The numbers registered and voting are not subject to dispute. Gonzotx is simply lying.
The only possible disagreement would be over how many who were not registered were eligible to register. Gonzotx claims almost 2M. That’s just impossible; the whole city’s population is only about 8.5M, and it’s impossible that the number of minors and aliens is only 1.5M. The census bureau says 20% of the population is minors, so that’s 1.7M, and 15% of the remainder are aliens, so almost another million.
Guess what? If you import millions of people from third-world shit-holes into your city, your city will turn into a third-world shit-hole.
Aw come on, Paul. Look at Minneapolis. It’s the envy of the world. Low crime, quality Learing Centers, honest hardworking people, no fraud of any kind. Foreign visitors offered sanctuary. Excellent weather, even in winter there’s no ICE.
O can’t believe we are going to lose to the demon democrats in this election
Pretty much terrified of the consequences
Mamdani needs to do a video for homeless people to make sure they know their rights.
If they knew their rights, they wouldn’t be homeless.
It’s a strange situation when there are thousands of homeless citizens while illegal aliens are living in homes.
NYC has spent billions of dollars providing temporary housing, hotel rooms, and services to tens of thousands of illegal aliens, which strains a municipal budget that could otherwise fund permanent housing solutions, mental health services, and rent subsidies for homeless New Yorkers.
But hey, Illegals have priority. Give them sanctuary. Give them free services. Protect them from ICE, Kiss their butts. Smack smack smack.
“It’s a strange situation when there are thousands of homeless citizens while illegal aliens are living in homes.”
The homeless aren’t homeless because they don’t have homes. They’re homeless because they don’t want homes.
Not true. The overwhelming majority, almost all homeless people are homeless by “choice”, i.e. they’re crazy people who prefer living on the street to entering a shelter with rules. Knowing their rights (to the extent that their lunacy allows them to) wouldn’t change anything.
I’m surprised Mamdani didn’t stick in a reminder to ICE agents that they don’t have to obey their superiors giving them any illegal orders.
Meh. That’s decent advice for everyone in dealing with LEO. It isn’t as if there haven’t been all sorts of prior education campaigns by open borders folks disseminating this same message. Of course ICE has a little more leeway in the 100 mile border zone to briefly detain and question re whether someone is lawfully present. Pretty easy to hand over a DL/ID to put an end to the encounter and dispel the suspicion of unlawful presence/entry.
No hablo Mamdani.
This is a big nothing. Of course people should know their rights, regardless of whether they’re doing right or wrong.
And we all know, the rights of criminals, terrorists, and people who have no business being here are WAY more important — and deserve MUCH more of our elected officials’ attention — than the rights of people who were born here and have been contributing and obeying practically all the laws all their lives.
Mamdani states ICE agents cannot enter private area without a warrant but don’t ICE usually issue their own administrative warrants? He mentions judicial warrants but doesn’t address what other kinds of warrants permit.
If ICE need to get judicial warrants for every action then won’t that simply make an already overburdened judicial system even more overburdened? Either that or ICE will need to secure their own judge to rubber stamp every judicial warrant they’ll require for the next millennia.
Conversely, isn’t it possible that judicial warrants could be refused by partisan judges since illegal presence in country is generally treated as a civil offence not a crime? This could make open borders de facto law in some states.
To enter a residence without permission ICE and every other LEO generally require a judicial warrant with very limited exceptions. When ICE is going after someone at their home they can get the warrant b/c there’s enough basis to issue it for ‘worst of worst’ which is almost certainly the universe of homes they’d be going to 99% of the time.
The problem might arise from the exceptions. Say ICE knows Joe works at ABC industries and drives Y car. They show up and follow him home and try to initiate a stop of Y car but Joe eludes, makes it home and runs inside. ICE can now enter the home b/c that’s ‘hot pursuit’ and an additional and ongoing crime of eluding/evading committed in their presence. If Joe’s wife doesn’t wanna let them in b/c Mamdani ‘told her she didn’t have to’ now there’s a problem for her b/c they don’t need a warrant and she’s opening herself up to criminal charges.
Administrative “warrants” are not warrants, just as administrative law “judges” are not judges. To enter private property without the owner’s permission they need a real warrant.
And judges issuing warrants are not allowed to merely rubber-stamp what the police tell them; they are required to consider the evidence presented to them and determine whether they amount to probable cause. The fact that so many judges don’t do that is a scandal.
Chief, hot pursuit is not automatic. See Lange v California, in which a unanimous Supreme Court struck down evidence obtained from a “hot pursuit” entry.
Milhouse,
Nevertheless a legitimate ‘hot pursuit’ does allow warrantless entry. When you create your hypothetical you can frame the hot pursuit as insufficient to create conditions allowing warrantless entry, but not mine. Since were adding to the hypothetical the guy crashed his vehicle and ICE is conceived his safety and well being so are entering to check his injuries.
As a practical matter given recent SCOTUS ruling granting warrantless entry for ‘welfare checks’ by LEO it would be interesting to see how they’d respond to a ‘welfare check’ on an illegal alien by ICE …purely out of concern for the well being of the illegal alien mind you, not as pretext to gain entry, goodness no b/c there’s no LEO Agency local, State or Fed that would ever use a pretext ….and no CT would ever say well gee whiz, MR Police that sounds fine to us, carry on.