Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. It's Wednesday, May 27th,

2026. We've got a packed show for you today. New York mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city

should seize neglected private properties and transfer them to nonprofits or even tenants.

The Trump administration ramps up its immigration fraud crackdown by targeting

asylum lawyers accused of coaching illegal immigrants to lie.

A San Francisco YMCA quietly changes its locker room rules after controversy surrounding a

transgender identifying individual, exposing themselves in women's spaces.

Let's dive in.

We start in New York City where Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again pushing policies that critics say sound less like mainstream

American governance and more like outright socialism.

During remarks this week, Mamdani announced that his administration wants the power to transfer

ownership of neglected apartment buildings away from landlords and hand those properties over to

non-profits, community land trusts, or even tenants themselves.

Mamdani said, for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership

to responsible stewards. Then he added, when necessary, we will take aggressive legal

action to remove negligent owners and property managers. Now, notably, Mamdani did not fully explain

exactly how the city would legally seize privately owned property, but critics immediately pointed to New York's controversial

third-party transfer program, or TPT. That program allowed the city to foreclose on distressed

buildings if landlords owed back taxes, failed to pay water bills, or accumulated large numbers of housing code violations.

Once the city took control, the properties could then be handed over to non-profit organizations,

community housing groups, or tenant-controlled entities.

Now, supporters claim the program protected renters from slumlords, but critics argued it

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