US EditionMamdani touts productive meeting with Trump on housing
Mayor Mamdani secured federal backing for at least 12,000 new housing units and prompted President Trump to order the imminent release of a detained Columbia student.
- On Thursday, New York City Mayor Mamdani met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, proposing federal help to finance at least 12,000 housing units.
- Despite campaign rhetoric, Mamdani and Trump have continued communicating and signaled a willingness to cooperate, meeting previously in November, Mamdani posted on X.
- Mamdani's team produced a mock New York Daily News front page with the headline `Trump to City: Let's Build`, and Mamdani posted a photo from the Oval Office showing Trump holding both covers.
- He raised the ICE detention of Columbia student Elmina `Ellie` Aghayeva, and shortly after, Trump called to say she would be released `imminently`; Mamdani also gave Trump and Susie Wiles a list of four other detained students.
- This signals pragmatic cross-party cooperation on housing and affordability as Thursday's meeting highlighted an unlikely working relationship between Mamdani and Trump and a potential major federal housing investment in New York City.
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ICE detains Columbia student in dorm raid; Mamdani credits Trump for release
Federal immigration agents entered Columbia University housing early Thursday and detained a student. By midafternoon, she was out of custody after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said President Donald Trump told him she would be released. Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, a senior studying neuroscience and political science, was taken around 6:30 a.m., according to a campus message from Columbia’s acting president, Claire Shipman. Disputed entry into…
ICE releases Columbia student from custody after Trump-Mamdani talks
US President Donald Trump agreed to release a Columbia University student detained by immigration agents on Thursday after a direct appeal from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House. Elmina Aghayeva was arrested earlier that same day after federal agents entered one of the university's residential buildings without a warrant and under false pretences.
New York's left-wing leader Zohran Mamdani announced yesterday that Donald Trump authorized a student from Columbia University, held by the Anti-Immigratory Police (ICE), after he had reported to the US President, reports AFP
The mayor of New York appears to have chosen a communication tactic adapted to the American president's... weakness in the face of publicity.
US: Detained student released after Mamdani meets Trump
In a rollercoaster series of events, a foreign student at Columbia University was arrested by ICE agents but then quickly released after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised concerns with President Donald Trump.
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