NYC mayoral candidate proposes $100M funding boost for illegal immigrant legal defense services

New York state Assemblyman and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said that a "cornerstone" of his campaign is to increase funding for the legal defense of illegal immigrants facing deportation.Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who won the Democratic nomination in the mayoral race, said on MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime" that, "400,000 of our residents are right now in urgent risk of deportation.""A cornerstone of our campaign is to increase funding for those very legal defense services by more than $100 million so that we can ensure we're taking every step we can to