Mamdani’s out to leverage anger at ICE to undermine the NYPD — with Israel next

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to weaponize of City Hall’s procurement power against ICE — that is, against city vendors who also do business with federal immigration authorities.

It’s an obvious prelude to imposing anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions policies on New York City.

Politico reports that the Mamdani’s minions are auditing contracts that the NYPD, the Corrections Department and four other city agencies have with surveillance-tech companies such as Vigilant Solutions and Securus.

Mamdani flack Sam Raskin says it’s just a review of agency “policies, guidelines and procedures” as “related to federal immigration enforcement” — but adds: “We will share more soon.”

The idea comes straight from the left-wing Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, which urged a vendor review in December. 

STOP obsesses about “police spying” and wants the mayor to dismantle all NYPD “surveillance” capabilities, everything from its gang databases to drones, license plate readers and facial-recognition tech.

And exploiting anti-ICE fury is simply a pretext.

STOP claims that the NYPD’s contracts with Vigilant etc. enable “backdoor access” for ICE to city data, but it has no such evidence: The city Department of Investigation has flagged a few instances of prohibited information-sharing, but they involved individuals, not contractors — and had nothing to do with ICE.

Yet City Hall might play along, seeing this as a politically safe way to undermine policing and to punish businesses that do legitimate business the feds — and to pursue other agendas.

Next would come similar “concerns” about vendors who do any business with, say, the Israeli Defense Force — you know, because “international law.”

STOP’s claims are hysterical nonsense, but progressives will happily exploit its disinformation and anti-ICE obsessions to forward their larger agenda.

They feel entitled to use every possible dirty trick because they’re positive every one of their causes is right.