{"id":2612236,"date":"2026-06-09T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mamdani-says-soccer-would-not-exist-without-immigrants-over-ice-concerns-in-nyc-for-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:11:24","slug":"mamdani-says-soccer-would-not-exist-without-immigrants-over-ice-concerns-in-nyc-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mamdani-says-soccer-would-not-exist-without-immigrants-over-ice-concerns-in-nyc-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani says \u2018soccer would not exist without immigrants\u2019 over ICE concerns in NYC for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmamdani-says-soccer-would-not-exist-without-immigrants-over-ice-concerns-in-nyc-for-world-cup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2612236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized a planned increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the run-up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, saying it is indeed \u201can attempt to divide us.\u201d He argued that immigrants are essential to soccer-pointing to immigrant players and that immigrants help staff stadiums and enable World Cup celebrations-while also saying the city will not \u201csow fear\u201d in communities.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after Border Czar Tom Homan warned that ICE would substantially expand its presence in New York because state leaders, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, refused to cooperate with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbp-ice-release-reports-on-border-arrests-seizures\/\" title=\"CBP, ... release reports on border arrests, seizures\">immigration enforcement<\/a><\/a>. Homan claimed Hochul\u2019s stance and related state policies reduced ICE\u2019s ability to arrest people through cooperation with county jails, requiring wider ICE operations in neighborhoods instead. He said Hochul had been warned that signing legislation would lead to more ICE agents, and he reiterated that more ICE presence in New York was still planned, though he did not specify timing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> blasted the decision to increase the number of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> officers headed to his city as the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/world-cup\/\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> begins this week. He posted a comment on X on Monday afternoon, calling it \u201can attempt to divide us\u201d before crediting immigrants as the reason soccer exists in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSoccer would not exist without immigrants,\u201d Mamdani <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nycmayor\/status\/2064042490668204109?s=46\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on X. \u201cImmigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men\u2019s National Team are immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4599343\/gordon-wood-scholar-american-revolution-dies-92\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Gordon S. 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Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men&#8217;s National Team are immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wV8nffw9d\">https:\/\/t.co\/8wV8nffw9d<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\u2014 Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2064042490668204109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities \u2014 especially at this moment,\u201d Mamdani added. \u201cAs the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamdani\u2019s comments were not directed at any one person or agency. However, Border Czar Tom Homan warned in the past of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3891776\/ice-officers-planning-increase-presence-new-york-city-tom-homan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">significant increase in ICE officers in New York City<\/a> due to government officials refusing to assist federal immigration enforcement officers. During an interview on Fox News on Monday morning, Homan said more ICE officers were coming because politicians such as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to cooperate with ICE. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m going to keep my promise to Governor Hochul,\u201d Homan said on Fox News on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then explained why it was necessary to increase ICE\u2019s presence in New York City, blaming it on Hochul\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI met with Gov. Hochul a couple of months ago,\u201d Homan said. \u201cI explained to her how we dealt with Minnesota, right? If we can work with the sheriffs and arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, that means less teams into the neighborhoods, which causes a lot of panic, a lot of problems, right?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI said, \u2018But if you sign the legislation that I think you\u2019re getting about ready to sign, that means I\u2019m going to send more agents to New York, because now rather than one guy arresting one bad guy in a jail, now we\u2019ve got to send a whole team into the neighborhood to find this person that didn\u2019t want to be found, because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dr-phil-and-tom-homan-personally-rounding-up-illegals-bring-in-child-sex-predator\/\" title=\"Watch: Dr. Phil and Tom ... Personally Rounding Up Illegals, Bring in Child Sex Predator\">officer safety reasons<\/a>,\u2019 you know? Now we\u2019ve got to arrest this guy in his turf. He has access to no-op weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4598964\/homan-anti-ice-protesters-delaney-hall-new-jersey\/\"><strong>HOMAN SAYS MOST ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS AT NEW JERSEY\u2019S DELANEY HALL ARE NOT STATE RESIDENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told her, it\u2019s safer for the community, it\u2019s safer for the officers, it\u2019s safer for the aliens to have these cooperations with the jails,\u201d Homan added. \u201cShe signed the legislation anyway. So I made her a promise. You\u2019re going to see more ICE agents you\u2019ve ever seen in New York City, and it\u2019s coming.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homan was vague on the implementation of the ICE deployment, but did emphasize it was necessary because Hochul refused to cooperate with immigration enforcement and banned ICE from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-ripped-for-claiming-he-fought-sanctuary-cities-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mayorkas ripped for claiming he fought \u2018sanctuary cities\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">arresting criminal illegal immigrants<\/a> in the state\u2019s jails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just reviewed an operational plan,\u201d Homan said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to tell you exactly when it\u2019s going to happen, but it\u2019s coming. I\u2019m keeping my promise. We\u2019re going to send more ICE agents to New York, because you took away the efficiencies of safe arrests in county jails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced more ICE officers as World Cup starts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2612237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mamdani.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4727,56552,7478],"class_list":["post-2612236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-immigrants","tag-mamdani","tag-soccer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mamdani.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612240,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612236\/revisions\/2612240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}