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A Venezuelan refugee who fled political persecution is warning that socialist policies pushed by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani will bring the same hardships to America.

"Young people who right now are trying to support socialist ideas because they think this time would be different — it would not be different," Franklin Camargo, 27, told Fox News Digital. "You don’t want the government to dictate your life. You don’t want the government to stop you from having aspirations, from having desires, from pursuing your own happiness. Trust me, you don’t want that."

Mamdani, a democratic socialist who secured the Democratic Party nomination for New York City mayor in June, ran a campaign focused on making the city

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