US President Donald Trump has warned that the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, could be arrested if he follows through on his promise to prevent federal officials from enforcing immigration laws in the country’s largest city.

Uganda-born Mamdani said in his victory speech after the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday that he would “stop masked ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents from deporting our neighbors.”

“Well then, we will have to arrest him,” Trump said when asked by journalists about the New York state lawmaker’s pledge later in the day, as he visited the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in Florida.

“Look, we do not need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I am going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation,” the president said, referring to Mamdani.

Trump also claimed that “a lot of people are saying he is here illegally. We are going to look at everything.”

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