First Thing: Mamdani says socialist allies offer ‘national message’ to US

Zohran Mamdani celebrates the opening of New York City's outdoor pool season. Photograph: Matt Roberts/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Zohran Mamdani celebrates the opening of New York City's outdoor pool season. Photograph: Matt Roberts/Shutterstock First Thing: Mamdani says socialist allies offer ‘national message’ to US New York City mayor says Democratic candidates he endorsed speak to people struggling to make ends meet. Plus the best pictures from weekend Pride events across the US Good morning. New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, said on Sunday that he and a slew of Democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections were carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”. His endorsed candidates won Democratic nominations in three races for New York congressional seats, as well as for five state legislature positions in Albany. He said that collectively they were carrying a “New Deal understanding” of Democratic politics to Congress and on to the “national stage”. It spoke, he said, to Americans feeling exhaustion at struggling to make ends meet “every single day”. Mamdani remarked: “We don’t have to nationalize that message. That is a national message – it’s a national crisis.” How did other members of the Democratic party react? Fifteen self-labelled “moderate” Democrats in the US House signed an open letter that, though it did not mention Mamdani or his endorsed allies, was clearly targeted at them. “We are capitalist, not socialist,” they said. “We are mainstream, not extreme. We are proud, not ashamed, of America.” US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave View image in fullscreen Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP Migrants in the US on temporary protected status should seek permanent residence or leave , Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said after a supreme court decision stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants last week. “Either try to fill ‌out the paperwork and ‌be here underneath a permanent status or we’ll help you get ‌back to your country,” Mullin said. “We’ll actually give you a plane ticket, plus roughly $2,100 to help you re-establish when you get there, but temporary protective status, according to the courts and in its name itself, is not permanent status,” he added. Who is affected by the supreme court decision? Thursday’s ruling is set to affect an estimated 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian immigrants who now face detention or deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as protections end. The US ⁠first provided temporary protected status (TPS) to Haitians after a devastating earthquake in ​2010, and ​to Syrians after their country descended ​into civil war in 2012. Venezuela earthquakes: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 View imag