WATCH: Mamdani Says He’s Suing Trump Admin for Denying Green Cards to Welfare Leeching Aliens – “People Could Die”

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over a new rule that would allow the denial of green cards to immigrants who use welfare programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing assistance. 

Several other liberal jurisdictions, including Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, are involved in the suit.

Mamdani, in a press conference on Monday, railed against the policy that “makes it possible for someone to be denied immigration status based on the likelihood of their need for public benefits.”

He thinks you should be able to come to this country from Africa, China, India, the Middle East, or South America and just feed off of native Americans’ tax dollars.

He says this creates “uncertainty and fear to isolate immigrant New Yorkers to force them to make an impossible choice between meeting their own basic needs and continuing to live in the city that they love”

“This is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of the services they rely on, the public benefits they are entitled to,” the Communist mayor said, claiming that actual Americans must now fear that immigration officers will come after them if they use welfare programs.

“People could die,” he claimed.

WATCH:

“Hardworking families should not be forced to go without the support they need because they fear asking for assistance will get them deported,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a press release.

“This rule preys on that fear and counts on families forfeiting the food assistance, health care coverage, and other public benefits to which they are legally entitled. My office fought this exact policy once before and won, and we are leading the nation to ensure the Trump administration cannot inflict this harm on families again.”

Per the Wall Street Journal:

The federal rule, announced over the summer, would vastly expand the government’s ability to deny someone a green card or visa if an adjudicator finds they have used government benefits, or believes they could become dependent on such benefits in the future.

The Trump administration is introducing the rule—which takes effect Sept. 18—to discourage immigrants’ use of local public programs like food or healthcare assistance. Under the new framework, immigrants could also be denied a green card if they or a family member received state or federal financial aid to attend college.

In the lawsuit, the cities, including Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, argue that the new rule goes against longstanding legal precedents that had limited the denial of a green card and visas to immigrants who are primarily dependent on government assistance to live. The new rule wrongfully broadens that definition to any immigrant receiving temporary or supplemental assistance, the lawsuit said.

Mamdani said Monday that the rule will not only discourage immigrant families but also U.S. citizens with ties to immigrant families from enrolling in programs they are eligible for. He said at a press conference that an estimated four million people across the country could unenroll from their healthcare as a result of the rule.