President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that “we’ll have to arrest” New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani if he fights to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out. 

“We don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation,” Trump said while touring the new “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, reports Newsweek.

Mamdani, a state assemblyman and self-described democratic socialist who defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and several other candidates to take the nomination last week, has said that his administration will focus on keeping ICE out of the city’s facilities and end cooperation with the agency. 

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