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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a pair of clean immigration wins last week, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded by announcing he would ignore them. Now Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is sounding the alarm.
The Court ruled 6-3 Thursday in Mullin v. Doe to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants. This ruling set off predictable outrage from the progressive wing of the party. Mamdani was first out of the gate. In a video statement, he declared the decision "cruel" and invoked the specter of the Haitian Revolution to frame deportation enforcement as a betrayal of universal freedom.
"To have people who frankly taught the world about freedom have their own freedom put into jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and federal administration - it is not only cruel, it's not something we will ever accept," Mamdani said. "The Supreme Court just sparked one of the largest attacks on immigrants in modern American history. In one fell swoop, thousands of Haitians and Syrians now risk losing the right to live and work in the country they call home."
He went on to reassure migrants that New York City would not comply with the ruling.
"To the tens of thousands of New Yorkers with TPS who are watching the news, frightened about what comes next, hear me clearly: New York City is your home. You belong here. We will not turn our backs on you," Mamdani said. "You will not face this cruelty alone. This administration will stand alongside immigrant New Yorkers today, tomorrow, and every day that follows."
These are not ambiguous rulings with room for creative local interpretation. The Supreme Court made its ruling, and Mamdani's position is that he can ignore it just because he doesn't like it.
So, there is a rural small community in The Netherlands, called: Oldebroek.
Today, after long negotiations, the new community administration came out with a declaration concerning the results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tvtPHOTuQU
- No more rainbow flags.
- New housing goes to their own people
- Fuck you to Immigration unless it is about people who are culturally close to the current inhabitants and only limited to 75, no single men, or just children. They want families.
- lowering local taxes
- cash payments protected
- no windmills, focus on insulation and natural gas.
- Celebration of local culture, not cultural equivalence.
- Administration set close to inhabitants, instead of behind call centers.
- Keeping the Sunday rest. ( but Friday night is party time till 2Am Saturday)
- rejecting climate agenda
- rejecting Nox-agenda.
- Mothers and Fathers to New Borns will receive a present
- Family = cornerstone of society and will be celebrated/ facilitated.
As was said: we will not be talking woke, but simply use our commons sense.
The coalition consists of: local parties: classical liberals [not the woke ones; Hayek is turning in his grave), State Reformed Party ( SGP: ultra christian) and C.V.O (Christian Union Oldebroek)
It seems our Christian friends are finding their spine again, which they lost during Covid. Back then, only those in Bible Belt former fishing Island village Urk, as a group, remained unfazed and kept obeying the Lord before obeying the state.
Oldebroek is situated here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/408108
I do hope, it will be the beginning of a turn around ....
