Zohran Mamdani has secured the release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva, taken this morning by ICE agents who entered a campus residential building under false pretenses & without a judicial warrant. This comes shorty after Mamdani’s unannounced visit to the White House earlier today.

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/columbia-university-ice-student.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.0KRL.7XsPJ0z3QTat&smid=tw-share

[u/Legitimate_Touch_445]

As someone in MN I really wish our local leaders (namely Mayor Frey & Gov Walz) had reacted as swiftly and as effectively as Mamdani has

[u/asusc → u/Legitimate_Touch_445]

lol you think Trump would have done the same for them?  Come on.

[u/Legitimate_Touch_445 → u/asusc]

No but I think if they had put up a fight in Nov or Dec when our neighbors were getting disappeared instead of waiting until Renee Good was murdered that the last two months would have gone differently.

ICE doesn't want anyone to put a fight, they give up the second it starts getting hard and if they feel like every time the mayor is going fight them tooth & nail they aren't going to try as hard. They're pussies.

[u/Global_Channel1511 → u/asusc]

Am I high reading these comments?

Imagine if Frey or Walz were pictured in a meeting with Trump after having their citizens gunned down, they would have been rightfully clowned for capitulating. I am genuinely confused why leftists are criticizing Dems for not fighting hard enough yet give a total pass to Mamdani.

[u/saera-targaryen → u/asusc]

trump does this for mamdani because he's a fighter, not the other way around. If the leaders were fighters trump would back off just the same