Zohran Mamdani previously called to end sanctions on Venezuela, partly blamed penalties for US migrant crisis

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani had once called for lifting US sanctions on Venezuela and blamed them for contributing to the local migrant crisis. Mamdani had been serving as a state assemblyman when he signed onto a 2023 statement from the city chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America on the influx of migrants from the southern border. “Many of the new arrivals have been displaced as a result of destabilizing economic policies by the United States’ ruling class: from the climate crisis caused by multinational corporations to direct foreign interventions against nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Guatemala,” said the Sept.