Source: New York Post
Darializa Avila-Chevalier wrote an academic paper concluding US border enforcement is rooted in “anti-Blackness and Islamophobia,” The Post can reveal. The Mayor Zohran Mamdani-backed Congressional candidate — a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for New York’s 13th District — uses a single case study to advance sweeping conclusions the entire US counterterrorism system is structurally racist and designed to surveil perceived political foes. Chevalier — who deleted old tweets saying she wanted to abolish police, prisons and borders according to CNN — wrote the 2023 paper on the case of Abdikadir Mohamed, a Somali man with US permanent residency who was detained upon arrival at JFK Airport in 2017.
