By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2024-12-05 21:31:33 | Updated at 2024-12-25 20:48:43
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Mayor Eric Adams is set to meet with President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan next week — as the city scrambles to prepare for a massive shift in immigration policy with the incoming White House administration.
“I am looking forward to sitting down and speaking with the border czar next week,” Adams said on MSNBC Thursday morning.
“I want to hear the actual plan and how are we going to operationalize the plan,” Adams said, adding he has “not been silent” on his feelings regarding migrants who commit “violent crimes” in the Big Apple.
Mayor Eric Adams took a harder stance on migrants charged with crimes Tuesday. William Farrington“I would like to hear the border czar’s plan on addressing that,” the mayor told MSNBC.
The sitdown is slated for next Thursday morning at City Hall, The Post confirmed.
The meeting comes as Hizzoner signaled he’s open to taking a harder stance and loosening sanctuary city rules that bar local officials from working with federal immigration authorities.
Adams told reporters Tuesday that asylum seekers should be deported after being charged with a crime.
He had previously maintained that asylum seekers should only be deported after they are convicted and serve their time in jail or prison.
The incoming border czar Tom Homan has vowed to crack down on sanctuary cities. AP“Those who are here committing crimes, robberies shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country,” Adams said during his weekly off-topic press conference.
Any change to sanctuary city laws would have to come with the sign-off of the City Council or through an executive order, however, the latter would likely face legal challenges.
City officials have been working behind the scenes since the presidential election to prepare for a shift from the Biden-Harris administration, which welcomed asylum seekers with soft border policies, to Trump, who has called for mass deportations.
For his part, Homan said he plans to crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions if they don’t work with the feds — even going as far as threatening to withhold federal funding from cities that don’t comply.
