[Video] Zohran mamdani Goes Ballistic after ICE arrests his top Aide.

NEW YORK CITY — The simmering conflict between New York City’s radical sanctuary policies and federal immigration law has finally erupted into open warfare. On Monday, newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly went “ballistic,” launching a furious public tirade after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents executed a targeted arrest of a City Council staffer.

While the Mayor and his allies are attempting to frame the arrest as a political “assault on democracy,” federal authorities have revealed a starkly different reality involving visa fraud, overstayed welcome, and a documented history of violence.

Mamdani did not mince words, immediately taking to X (formerly Twitter) to express his outrage. Ignoring the legal facts of the detention, he framed the arrest of a visa violator as an existential threat to the city’s governance.

“I am outraged… This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,” Mamdani wrote, demanding the staffer’s immediate release.

Council Speaker Julie Menin joined the chorus of indignation, claiming the employee was authorized to work until 2026. “We are doing everything we can to secure his immediate release,” Menin stated. However, the narrative of a victimized public servant collapsed almost instantly when the truth about the detainee’s background came to light.

The detainee, identified as Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, is a Venezuelan national with a troubling history that City Hall either missed or willfully ignored.

According to federal authorities, Bohorquez entered the U.S. in 2017 on a tourist visa and never left. Officials confirmed he had “no legal right to be in the United States.“

Even more damning is the revelation that Bohorquez had a prior arrest for assault—a fact that seemingly did not disqualify him from obtaining a sensitive position as a “data analyst” within the City Council. While Mamdani screams about “values,” ICE was simply doing its job: removing a foreign national who violated his visa terms and had a criminal record.

The arrest raises serious questions about the competence of City Hall’s hiring practices. Critics are asking how an individual with an active deportation status and a documented assault record was hired and paid with taxpayer money.

“This is a massive vetting failure driven by ideology,” one critic noted. “In their rush to signal virtue and defy federal law, city officials seemingly bypassed basic background checks.”

The incident underscores the panic among Democrat leaders in New York. For years, they believed a City Hall ID badge was a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. But under the new administration, those days are over. Mamdani can scream about “democracy,” but as long as federal law reigns supreme, his policy of harboring criminals is hitting a dead end.