New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused "oligarchs" of buying U.S. elections and said masked agents were "terrorizing our streets" in a speech marking America's 250th anniversary Friday ahead of the Fourth of July.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took aim at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Elon Musk and what he described as the "arena of supremacy" in the United States during an immigration-themed America 250 speech on Friday ahead of Fourth of July weekend.
Flanked by eight recently naturalized U.S. citizens, Mamdani invoked the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and America's history of immigration before turning his rhetoric on elements of today's U.S. Mamdani also blasted the "world's first trillionaire" — a milestone Musk achieved with the long-awaited Initial Public Offering (IPO) of SpaceX last month.
"We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more," Mamdani said, without naming Musk. "We see monopolies that dominate every industry, and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans."
"We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few," he added.
Mamdani, who was sitting at George Washington's desk during the remarks, also praised the legacy of immigrants, claiming that they have overcome riots "aimed at their very existence," to create lives in New York.
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