BREAKING NEWS: Representative Andy Ogles urges Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Zohran Mamdani for a possible federal crime for concealing praise of terrorists during his naturalization process
Republican Representative for Tennessee Andy Ogles has escalated his campaign against Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
On October 28, 2025, Ogles sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging a formal investigation into whether Mamdani, naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018, concealed affiliations with radical anti-Israel movements and expressions of support for terrorist groups during his citizenship process.
This action follows an initial letter sent on June 26, 2025, and comes at a critical moment: with less than two weeks until the November 4 elections, Mamdani leads the polls as the Democratic nominee, backed by progressive figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.
Ogles, an outspoken conservative and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, argues in his letter that Mamdani’s public statements prior to naturalization—including praise for individuals convicted of funding Hamas and sympathetic rhetoric toward the anti-Israel boycott—constitute a potential federal crime under Section 1451 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
This provision allows for denaturalization if “misconduct” or “concealment of material facts” is proven during the oath of allegiance, which requires an unwavering commitment to the Constitution and rejection of ideologies contrary to democratic principles.
“The American people expect equal enforcement of our immigration laws, especially when credible evidence of deception in the citizenship process exists,” Ogles writes, emphasizing that silence from the Department of Justice (DOJ) could undermine the integrity of the system.
The focus of the accusation lies in Mamdani’s activist past: a Ugandan of Ugandan-Ugandan descent who immigrated to the United States in 2004 and became a prominent democratic socialist.
In 2017, before his naturalization, Mamdani released a rap song titled “Salaam” under the alias Mr. Cardamom, including the line “My love to the Holy Land Five, you better look ’em up.”
These “Holy Land Five” are the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, an organization convicted in 2008 of laundering $12 million to Hamas, the terrorist group designated by the U.S. government and responsible for the October 7, 2023, attack that killed more than 1,200 Israelis.
This is an explicit endorsement of terrorism, incompatible with the oath not to support “the violent overthrow of the government.” Furthermore, Mamdani has been a pillar of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that has generated controversy for its anti-Israel stance.
Representative Andy Ogles has emphasized that, under federal law, any deliberate omission of ties to anti-American organizations or ideologies hostile to the Constitution in naturalization forms—such as the N-400—constitutes fraud that justifies immediate revocation of citizenship, as established by Section 1451 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
In the case of Zohran Mamdani, Ogles argues that his documented alignment with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that has promoted extreme anti-Israel rhetoric and rejected unequivocal condemnations of Hamas terrorism, should have been disclosed as a material affiliation that questions his loyalty to the citizenship oath.
“If he does not fully disclose anti-American ties, his citizenship can be revoked,” Ogles declared, insisting that the Department of Justice must act urgently to review Mamdani’s file and, if concealment is confirmed, proceed with denaturalization and deportation to Uganda, his country of origin, before he assumes any public office in New York.
The potential election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York would constitute an imminent threat to national security, as it would grant him direct access to the NYPD’s counterterrorism database—with classified information on operations against jihadists, Hamas financing, and radical networks—a privilege incompatible with his history of silencing ties to the DSA and praise for convicts who supported terrorism.
Mamdani immigrated to the United States not to integrate, but to push an agenda that undermines the Constitution, including veiled sympathies with totalitarian ideologies and refusal to unequivocally condemn Islamist violence.
The Department of Justice must investigate without delay, revoke his citizenship, and deport him to Uganda: no one, not even a progressive candidate, is above the law, and this is the battle to reclaim our nation’s sovereignty and security.
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