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The candidates for the Democratic town hall had an argument on the opportunity to undo the police during the debate of the mayor of New York on Wednesday evening, many candidates were distanting themselves from the formerly popular progressive position.
The candidates also discussed the best way to fight President Donald Trump, in particular with regard to his illegal immigration repression.
The former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, the current precursor of the race for the town hall, said: “We must admit what we have done. We have done on stage, almost without exception, have all financed the police … And now they call for more police. We would not need more police officers if we do not defeat them in the first place.”
After saying this, several other candidates quickly turned the tables on Cuomo, accusing him of also directing the accusation of police financing, which the former governor categorically denied.
“I used the words funded by the police, I said that I did not support the police,” said Cuomo.
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The candidates for the Democratic town hall had an argument on the opportunity to undo the police during the debate of the mayor of New York on Wednesday evening, many candidates were distanting themselves from the formerly popular progressive position. The candidates also discussed the best way to fight President Donald Trump, in particular with regard to his illegal immigration repression. (Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images and Reuters / Andrew Kelly)
While some candidates have said that they really support the increase in police presence in New York, others have suggested increasing “mental health awareness workers” in the streets and metro trains.
The progressive member of the New York State assembly, Zohran Mamdani, suggested: “We are going to assemble dedicated teams of awareness workers in mental health that will be deployed in the hundreds of top metro with the highest levels of mental health crisis and homeless.”
Whitney Tilson, a healing fund manager, blamed posts such as Mamdani as responsible for the increase in Trump's popularity among voters in New York.
“I think we, Democrats, have to stop giving Trump gifts,” said Tilson. “When we let ourselves be defined by our extreme left, by the socialists, with their” police financing “and the open borders, and this”.
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A demonstrator is seen breaking the windows of a police car during the demonstration against the Nichols shooting police assault in Times Square in New York, in the United States, on January 27, 2023. (Fatih Aktas / Anadolu agency via Getty Images)
“An area that I agree with Trump is that when, a socialist like Zohran in tweets here that the NYPD is in quotes,” Wicked “and calls to finance and dismantle the NYPD, that it is madness”, he said, adding: “that is to say, cost us elections for 30%.”
“We have to move away from the far left, socialism flows our party and our city,” said Tilson.
The candidates also discussed how to meet the increase in crimes and the display flight in New York and examined whether the deposit reforms adopted by the state under Cuomo are responsible for the point.
Michael Blake, a former Obama assistant, suggested that a guaranteed “median income” could be the solution to the increase in the display flight.
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A homeless is on the sidewalk in New York on December 27, 2024 (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu)
“If we help New Yorkers to win and keep more money in their pocket in the first place, then we would not have people talking about display flight. This is why we need local median income. This is why we must have guaranteed income. This is why I have to help people forward. So, we are not talking about them who are on the back,” said Blake.
Regarding Trump's repression against illegal immigration, the candidates have largely doubled on the city's status of the New York sanctuary and more limiting the capacity of the local police to cooperate with ice.
The current mayor of New York, Eric Adams, was largely castigated to be prepared to cooperate with the Trump administration and the ice with regard to the application of immigration.
When asked if she would have changed migrants on federal laws for the application of laws in New York, Adrienne Adams, the current speaker of the municipal council, said that if she was elected, “my mission is and will be to protect immigrants”.
Adams said: “I will absolutely use my intimidation chair to warn, as I do as a speaker of the municipal council daily.”
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An ice agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers under treatment when entering the federal building of Jacob K. Javits on June 6, 2023 in New York. (David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
Brad Lander, New York City Controller, said that he would build a network in the city government who would apply New York sanctuary and “would absolutely warn people before entering the ice”.
Zellnor Myrie, a state senator, said that the laws on the sanctuary “were not political” and “not only would I be warned, but I would assure them that we have their backs at the moment”.
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Jessica Ramos, a Democratic Senator of New York State, said that she would use the city's tax resources to combat Trump's immigration repression, saying: “We must absolutely keep the ice … Out of any public establishment” and “I want to make sure that in a city with so many lawyers, our immigrants have lawyers”.
“This is not the first time he has brought ice to New York. He has already done so and we have fought it and we won,” said Cuomo.
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“So he can be beaten. But he must know that he is against an opponent who can really beat him. And I can tell you this, I am the last person on this scene that Mr. Trump wants to see as mayor,” he continued. “And that is why I should be the first choice that the inhabitants of this city have as mayor.”
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Eric Adams presents himself to re -election as an independent and therefore did not participate in the debate.
