Lucie Pohl opened a night of comedy with a stab at President Donald Trump's migration crackdown.
"Are there any immigrants here? Or did we get rid of all of them?" German-born Pohl said, scanning the Friday night crowd at a New York comedy club's show called "Immigrant Jam."
Trump has overseen a sweeping crackdown on undocumented migration and alleges a link between migrants and crime -- something not backed up by any data.
New York's Democratic mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani calls Trump's aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency "a reckless entity that cares little for the law and even less for the people that they're supposed to serve."
But at the New York show, a band of foreign-born comics tried to see the bright side.
"We got a new mayor.... Who's happy?" Pohl said

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