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‘People Could Die’: Mamdani Sounds Alarm as Cities Sue Trump Administration Over Immigrant Welfare Benefits

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday he was leading a coalition of cities suing over the Trump administration’s effort to block welfare benefits for certain immigrants.

Other plaintiffs suing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York are Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Clara County, California, Seattle and King County, Washington, and the Public Rights Project.

A DHS spokesperson said this is just a matter of sanctuary jurisdictions seeking more federal funding.

“Let’s get this straight, sanctuary states are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs,” the DHS spokesperson told the Daily Signal. “We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome.”

“This is the ideological contortion required by left-wing leaders to justify their defrauding of the American taxpayer at the hands of illegal........

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