Mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa all criticized a chaotic U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) raid carried out in Chinatown on Tuesday that sparked fierce backlash from furious protesters and immigration advocates.

The raid, which began around 3 p.m. on October 21 near the intersection of Centre and Canal Streets, saw federal agents questioning street vendors in the area as part of an operation aimed at tackling counterfeit goods, according to a Homeland Security official.

Within moments, a crowd of angry New Yorkers surrounded ICE agents as they carried out the operation, with federal agents eventually moving to arrest several protesters — which only further inflamed the crowd.

Some New Yorkers shouted at agents as they carried out the operati

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