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The Brian Lehrer Show

30 Issues in 30 Days: ICE in the City

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Errol Louis talks about how each candidate says they will respond to ICE or other federal agents conducting raids in the city, like the one that happened earlier this week in Chinatown.

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0:00.0

Brian Lair, on WNYC, and now as we continue with excerpts and analysis from last night's debate,

0:17.0

we also continue our 30 issues and 30 days election series.

0:20.8

Let the corporate media focus mostly on the horse race. We also continue our 30 issues and 30 days election series.

0:23.9

Let the corporate media focus mostly on the horse race.

0:29.4

We continue on New York Public Radio to center the issues that will affect all our lives and compare the candidates on those for mayor of New York and governor of New Jersey.

0:34.5

Today it's issue 22, the ice raid on Canal Street on Tuesday to go after

0:39.6

street vendors selling counterfeit items and dealing with President Trump generally as an

0:45.8

issue in the mayoral race. We knew all along we would peg today's issue in 30 issues to something

0:50.7

from the WNYC debate, and this is the issue we've chosen.

0:58.6

There were three moderators last night from the three sponsoring news organizations,

1:03.4

me from WNYC, Katie Honan from the local news site, The City,

1:07.5

and Errol Lewis, political anchor at Spectrum News, New York One,

1:10.2

and the master of being the master of ceremonies.

1:15.5

Errol joins us now to discuss that opening segment of the debate that he presided over.

1:19.7

Errol, I know you're on the air a lot today with your own post-debate stuff, so thanks for giving us some time.

1:20.4

Welcome back to WNYC.

1:22.4

Absolutely.

1:23.1

Great to be with you, Brian.

1:24.6

The first excerpt includes Cuomo and Mamgani both rejecting the ICE raid.

1:30.5

Cuomo speaks first. We don't need ICE to do quality of life crimes. We don't need them to

1:37.7

worry about illegal vendors. That's a basic policing function for NYPD, consumer affairs, etc.

1:47.0

I would have called the president and I would have said, look, you're way out of bounds, their way out of bounds.

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