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Zohran Mamdani’s radical DSA group give astonishing anti-cop and ICE lecture to striking nurses

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30.01.2026

Talk about bad medicine.

Members of Zohran Mamdani’s political party taught nurses how to work against NYPD and ICE in an extraordinary session on Monday night.

The Post exclusively obtained audio of what was supposed to be a briefing for striking nurses at Mount Sinai in the city. Instead, they were given a two-hour, 18-minute lecture from Democratic Socialists of America organizers.

The DSA representatives launched radical ad hominem attacks against ICE, calling their officers “’roided up” slamming the NYPD as “not trustworthy,” and saying their $14 billion budget was too high.

Many of the 1,600 nurses who joined were left scratching their heads as to what this had to do with getting them back to work.

As one source told The Post, many were “disgusted” New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) union leadership was emphasizing anti-ICE policy over contract needs while their livelihoods and health insurance are on the line.

The session was led by attorney Leemah Nasrati, who opened the session by invoking protester Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Officer in Minneapolis, noting he was a nurse.

The main thrust of their program — which Nasrati said she also presented to doctors and nurses at Elmhurst Hospital — was to inform participants of ICE’s legal reach, how to identify ICE agents, stymie them and film interactions.

“What is ICE and what the f—k are they doing?” asked Nasrati.

Of the federal agency, formed in 2003 following the 9/11 attacks, she added, “It is younger than the cinematic masterpiece ‘Shrek’,” which was released in 2001.

“ICE is not inevitable. Most, if not all of us, have lived in a world without ICE.”

Nasrati was joined by DSA trainer Dominic Schlossberg, whose day job is at NYC Council but said he “came to this work,” in his personal time, over the summer.

In one section on how to identify ICE officers and distinguish them from other law enforcement entities,........

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