Every campaign that competes against NYC-DSA, no matter their ideology, even if their candidate is an immigrant/child of immigrants, will eventually deploy lazy nativist arguments that quickly slip into attacks on immigrant New Yorkers. They have nothing else to offer voters.
Here’s a clip with the full quote: “This race will define that this city belongs to the working women and the working men of New York City — not people that fly in from other states or from other parts of the world to try to impose their failed ideology.”