SCOTUS TPS Ruling vs. NYC Sanctuary — Mamdani Vows to Defy 6-3 Decision Stripping Status From ~40K New Yorkers

SCOTUS 6-3 Wed-night/Thu Jun 25 ruling cleared Trump administration to terminate TPS for ~300K Haitians and Syrians nationally; ~40K affected New Yorkers. Mamdani called the ruling "not only cruel" but "something that we will not ever accept" and directed worried residents to the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs hotline. Hochul and AG James joined the city's sanctuary backstop pledge. By weekend, conservative outlets (Townhall, RedState, Newsmax, Gateway Pundit) framed Mamdani as "defying SCOTUS"; mainstream coverage emphasized practical limits (no executive defiance of court order, mostly city services and legal-defense funding). Action lines up with Pride march same Sunday and budget impasse over CityFHEPS — immigration legal defense funding is one of the FY27 budget asks still on the table.

[Update Sun Jun 28] Two days after the Jun 26 SCOTUS 6-3 Mullin v. Doe ruling ending TPS for ~350K Haitians and ~4K Syrians, Mamdani marched in the NYC Pride parade alongside Gov. Hochul, AG Letitia James, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Comptrollers Levine and DiNapoli, and recent primary winners Brad Lander, Grace Lee, and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Pride's "For All of Us" theme — drawn from Marsha P. Johnson's "no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us" — was explicitly reframed by Mamdani's remarks to encompass TPS defiance and the immigrant sanctuary posture. Free municipal legal hotline for TPS-affected New Yorkers activated Jun 26 remains live. Federal-city collision watch: ICE workplace-enforcement escalation expected in July.