John,

Yesterday, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander — a WFP champion and one of the most courageous leaders in city government — was physically dragged and detained by ICE while standing in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers facing deportation.¹

This is the latest in a recent string of violent acts against our public servants, from unconscionable arrests of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. LaMonica McIver at an ICE facility, to the forcible removal of Senator Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference, to last week’s tragic assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband which also targeted and severely injured two others.

These senseless acts don’t come out of nowhere. They’re the direct result of the culture of hate, violence, and authoritarianism that Donald Trump is growing every day.

As afraid and sorrowful as we feel in the face of these attacks, it is crucial that we continue to stand up together against Trump’s agenda of cruelty and show the world what we’re fighting for.

Brad Lander put his body on the line yesterday to say what so many of us believe: No one should be torn from their family because of a piece of paper. No one should be criminalized for surviving and seeking safety.

His commitment to protecting New Yorkers of all backgrounds is why he’s one of the NYWFP’s top choices for Mayor in next week’s ranked choice voting election, in a slate of candidates — including Zohran Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, and Zellnor Myrie — who stood alongside Brad, calling for his immediate release and reaffirming their commitments to protect immigrant communities.

If you’d like to support Brad and the rest of our mayoral slate for showing the courage to fiercely rebuke the Trump administration and their violent campaign against our human rights, we urge you to join a phone bank this weekend to share their message with the people of New York. As they face off against Andrew Cuomo — the race’s frontrunner, who has a decades-long relationship with Trump and is being bankrolled by the same big money interests² — we need to join together to ensure that the next mayor of New York City is prepared to stand strong for our values.

Click here to RSVP for a phone bank shift for Brad Lander and the rest of our NYC champions this Sunday, June 22 or Monday, June 23 at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT.

Phone bank for Brad Lander and our mayoral slate

To help our team in New York continue fighting for candidates and policies that put the people over the powerful, make a donation to the NYWFP today.

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In solidarity,

Working Families Party

Source:

1. Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse, The New York Times, June 17, 2025

2. Anti-Trump fervor defining the New York City mayor’s race, Politico, May 12, 2025

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