Mamdani Urges New York to Brace for National Guard Deployment

Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the New York mayor’s race, said the city should brace itself for a deployment of National Guard troops as part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to fight crime and round up undocumented immigrants in Democratic cities.

“We cannot try to convince ourselves that because something is illegal, Donald Trump will not do it,” Mamdani said at a rally with US Senator Bernie Sanders at Brooklyn College on Saturday. “We have to be prepared and we have to be clear-eyed and we have to understand that it will take every single tool at our ...