New York (AFP) — In a rare moment of agreement, the three candidates vying to be mayor of New York City all denounced on Wednesday a federal immigration raid that targeted street vendors.

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents detained nine “illegal aliens” on Tuesday on suspicion of various crimes, including selling counterfeit goods.

In the second and final debate of the mayoral race, Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani slammed the department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit as “a reckless entity that cares little for the law and even less for the people that they’re supposed to serve.”

His adversaries, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa, both argued that any crackdowns on counterfeit sales should be condu

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