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Reps. Nadler and Goldman barred from inspecting ICE holding cells in NYC (via Arya Sundaram for @gothamist) gothamist.com/news/reps-nadl…

OH MY

Kaz Daughtry, deputy mayor, "played an important role in planning massive raids on city-funded hotels housing thousands of migrants in Midtown Manhattan, only to see them aborted at the last minute." via William K. Rashbaum Dana Rubinstein Jonah Bromwich nytimes.com/2025/06/18/nyr…

NYC: After Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander was arrested by ICE and released hours later, he is now back at Immigration courts, there to escort migrants past ICE agents.

Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil welcomed home to NYC after his release on bail (via Arya Sundaram for Gothamist) gothamist.com/news/pro-pales…

Perhaps notable: the meat of the primary was bookended by dramatic anti-Trump moments focused on immigration enforcement: 1) Just as Cuomo was getting into the race, Mamdani went viral yelling at Tom Homan in Albany, showing fight & energy that would characterize his campaign.

Could have been predicted but Zohran's win now fueling anti-immigrant sentiment on the right

Cuomo fared better in lower-income and Black neighborhoods, Mamdani in middle/high income and college-educated, renter-dominated white, and esp Asian and Hispanic neighborhoods

More in depth income analysis of last night's election results: Cuomo does best in richest and poorest districts (approx 50k-, 250k+) Mamdani's strength is in the middle.

🚨NEW🚨 Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor. For New York Times Opinion I wrote about Mamdani’s historic coalition of the in-between: working, middle, and upper-middle-class renters spanning white, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods. nyti.ms/4lqrfAZ

"Come witness for yourself" Brad Lander urges New Yorkers and electeds to observe immigration court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza.

*Which many people don't know! Immigration court hearings are open to the public. If anyone wants to learn more about how the immigration system works in this country - or often doesn't - there are few better ways than attending immigration court hearings.

“Immigrants without criminal backgrounds have been among the fastest-growing groups of ICE detainees. Less than a third, 28.5%, of ICE detainees are convicted criminals. Another quarter have pending criminal charges and the rest have no criminal histories.”gothamist.com/news/theyre-ki…

NYC Immigration Arrests Just Shot Through the Roof, New Data Shows thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/ice… via THE CITY

About to join The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast to talk about conditions at ICE holding rooms in Lower Manhattan. Listen in live at the link below. wnyc.org/radio/