White conservatives have typically claimed they’re positive with immigrants as long as they arrive to the U.S. “the appropriate method,” which means legally. This has at all times been a lie, and now they’re revealing that reality to anybody who didn’t already realize it. If the notion that conservatives solely objected to immigrants residing within the U.S. when their paperwork wasn’t so as wasn’t an enormous, fats lie, Republican voters can be much more outraged that their leaders are actually calling on President Donald Trump to denaturalize and deport Zohran Mamdani.
As we beforehand reported, MAGA supporters throughout the MAGA-net, together with GOP leaders, had gone into full meltdown mode over information that Mamdani had clinched the Democratic nomination in New York Metropolis’s mayoral race, defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and, apparently, pissing within the Cheerios of Islamaphobic bigots throughout America. Properly, the frantic assaults on Mamdani have elevated exponentially since — *checks notes* — Tuesday, and now even lawmakers, who ought to know there’s no precedent, trigger or logic behind it, are calling for Mamdani, who was 7 years outdated when he and his mother and father migrated to the U.S., to be stripped of his citizenship.
On Thursday, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) posted on X: “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the nice Metropolis of New York. He must be DEPORTED. Which is why I’m calling for him to be topic to denaturalization proceedings.” Hooked up to his put up was a screenshot of a letter to Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi, urging her to open an investigation into Mamdani.
Earlier than we get to how far and extensive Ogles is reaching in suggesting a authorized motive to deport Mamdani, let’s check out the way in which the congressman started his tweet with specific racism, proper earlier than accusing the presumptive Democratic nominee of being antisemitic.
Who the hell is “little Muhammad?”
Mamdani is Muslim, and, as talked about earlier, white conservatives haven’t been shy about making his religion and ethnicity the central focus of their objection to him. “Little Muhammad” isn’t some cute nickname he got here up with for himself, and he’s by no means been known as such within the media or by anybody else publicly. So, it seems that Ogles is quoting himself in a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, which might make “little Muhammad” an ethnic slur, not that it might matter to xenophobic hypocrites who’re solely pretending to care about antisemitism to masks their very own bigotry.
One other factor to notice is that, like many MAGA Republicans, together with Trump himself, Ogles has blindly accused Mamdani of being a communist, an allegation that’s substantiated by completely nothing, however bolstered by the truth that your common MAGA conservative has no rattling clue what communism truly is.
From Al Jazeera:
Mamdani’s platform calls for making transportation, housing and groceries extra inexpensive, however specialists say he hasn’t espoused key tenets of communism, equivalent to authorities takeover of trade and personal property.
“Mamdani is NOT a communist,” wrote Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford College professor of worldwide research, in an electronic mail to PolitiFact. “Communism entails a centrally deliberate economic system, with no market forces. Costs and portions are set by a central authorities authority. There isn’t a democratic political competitors, and as an alternative a single occasion guidelines the nation. He isn’t calling for any of this.”
Unsurprisingly, Ogles believes Bondi can legally denaturalize and deport Mamdani, not as a result of he has dedicated against the law — as a result of he hasn’t — however as a result of, eight years in the past, he expressed views that anti-Palestine conservatives would possibly discover offensive. Ogles cited a chapter from the U.S. Code that outlines the revocation of citizenship for people who willfully misrepresent or conceal materials help for terrorism.
From The Hill:
“In keeping with public reviews, together with a June 21, 2025 New York Submit article, Mr. Mamdani expressed open solidarity with people convicted of terrorism-related offenses previous to changing into a U.S. citizen. Particularly, he rapped: ‘Free the Holy Land 5 / My guys,’” Ogles wrote within the letter.
The Holy Land Basis is a U.S.-based Muslim charity. 5 of its leaders have been convicted of funneling cash to Hamas in help of Palestine in 2008.
“Publicly praising the Basis’s convicted management as ‘my guys’ raises critical issues about whether or not Mr. Mamdani held affiliations or sympathies he didn’t disclose throughout the naturalization course of,” Ogles wrote.
The Trump administration cited comparable obscure laws to justify the detention and deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia College scholar and pro-Palestinian activist who additionally had not dedicated against the law. Khalil nonetheless faces a proper trial, however a federal choose dominated that he can’t be deported with out due course of simply because the White Home doesn’t agree along with his views.
Even Ogles appears to be conscious that what he’s attempting to do violates the First Modification, however as Trump supporters throughout the nation have proven, the Structure ends the place their unbridled xenophobia begins.
“Whereas I perceive that some might elevate First Modification issues about taking authorized motion based mostly on expressive conduct, equivalent to rap lyrics, speech alone doesn’t preclude accountability the place it moderately suggests underlying conduct related to eligibility for naturalization,” Ogles wrote.
Once more, this man goes to tug each muscle in his physique with that attain.
It could be good if Ogles and all the opposite Republican leaders and teams who’re calling for Mamdani’s deportation would simply admit they’re doing it for a similar motive each conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Courtroom voted Friday to assist Trump in his struggle towards birthright citizenship.
It was by no means in regards to the legality of Black and brown migrants dwelling right here. It was at all times about reinforcing white nationalism; they show it day-after-day!
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