New York’s newly inaugurated mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down with The View and, in a moment that should have alarmed every law-and-order conservative, doubled down on labeling the tragic killing of Renée Good “murder” and openly endorsed abolishing ICE on live television. Mamdani’s tone was less about measured public safety policy and more about stoking outrage on a national stage, giving credence to a dangerous idea that throwing out an entire federal enforcement agency is a solution. For a mayor who now has to keep New Yorkers safe, this kind of headline-seeking radicalism is not just irresponsible — it’s reckless.
The killing of Renée Nicole Macklin Good on January 7, 2026, remains a raw and contested event: she was fatally shot by an ICE agent during a federal operation in Minneapolis, and videotape and eyewitness accounts have produced furious debate and nationwide protests. Good was a 37-year-old mother, and the images and reports of her death have rightly moved people — but feelings do not replace facts, and investigators must be allowed to determine what happened without being sidelined by political grandstanding. The nation deserves transparency and accountability, but also the patience for a sober, evidence-based inquiry.
Instead of calling for fair investigations, Mamdani and his cheerleaders on daytime TV chose to leap to abolitionist rhetoric, insisting that scrapping ICE is the moral remedy for a complicated tragedy. Conservatives should be crystal clear: law enforcement agencies exist because criminals and bad actors exist, and gutting federal tools like ICE would simply hand more power to cartels, smugglers, and those who exploit our broken system. There is a legitimate debate to be had about reform and oversight, but abolishing the agency in the wake of a contested shooting is the very definition of political opportunism.
The View’s co-hosts didn’t push back with the seriousness this subject demands; rather they applauded and patted the new mayor on the head, turning a solemn policy discussion into another performative left-wing catechism. This is the cultural rot conservatives have been warning about for years — when elite media platforms reward emotional virtue-signaling over factual scrutiny, public discourse devolves into mob sentiment. New York and cities across America can’t survive on slogans and applause lines; they need steady leadership that prioritizes safety for ordinary citizens.
Worse still, the Justice Department’s decision not to open a civil-rights probe into Good’s killing — and the subsequent departures and turmoil among career prosecutors — has fed a narrative of politicized justice that fuels distrust on all sides. Conservatives should condemn any appearance of a cover-up, but we must also defend due process for federal agents who face life-or-death split-second decisions every day; rushing to labels like “murder” on cable TV undermines the rule of law and jeopardizes officers who are carrying out their duties. If the system is broken, fix it with reforms that ensure impartial investigations, not by collapsing institutions we rely on to enforce the law.
Abolishing ICE would not make Americans safer; it would gut an essential law-enforcement capability and hand a propaganda victory to those who traffic people and contraband across our borders. Conservatives can and should insist on accountability for misconduct while rejecting the absurd proposition that the solution is to leave our borders and immigration enforcement to nobody. The proper response is targeted reform: clear rules of engagement, independent oversight, and consequences where misconduct is proven — not theatrical abolition demanded by coastal elites.
Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who put security and common sense first, not mayors and media personalities who turn national tragedies into audition tapes for the next progressive talking point. If you believe in the rule of law, in protecting families, and in keeping our cities safe, then stand firm against this wave of radicalism masquerading as compassion. Demand transparency, demand accountability, and demand policies that protect citizens rather than punish the very institutions that keep order.
