A stunning turnaround from NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who is now calling for NYC’s sanctuary city law to be changed so that some illegal immigrants who commit felonies can be turned over to ICE for deportation.
Mayor Adams came out in favor of modifying the city’s sanctuary status laws Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to help federal authorities deport immigrants suspected of crimes — embracing a policy prescription mostly espoused by conservatives amid the local migrant crisis.
The sanctuary laws, which date back to the 1980s, prohibit city government workers and agencies from helping federal immigration authorities with tracking down and detaining immigrants residing in the five boroughs for deportation purposes.
There are exceptions to the sanctuary laws that allow the city to cooperate with the feds in some cases, including if an immigrant has been convicted of a serious or violent crime. Existing laws do not, however, permit the city to cooperate with federal immigration authorities if a foreign national has merely been accused of a crime.
In a Tuesday afternoon press briefing, Adams said the current laws are too lax and that he wants to return to a standard that was in place under former Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch. Under that standard, the city could cooperate with federal authorities, including by detaining immigrants on their behalf for deportation purposes, if they were “suspected” — not only convicted — of crimes.
The mayor didn’t say whether he wants to have the ability to cooperate with
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials only in cases involving immigrants suspected of violent crimes, or if he’d like the standard to be broadened to cover any suspected criminal wrongdoing. A spokesman for the mayor did not immediately return a request after the briefing.
Adams first threw his weight behind altering them during a town hall event in Brooklyn on Monday night, breaking his silence on the question. At that event, he didn’t elaborate on how exactly he’d like the laws to be changed, though, only saying he’d like to “modify” them.
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@ShyGeldingPatriot2yrs2Y
Here's the problem, most countries DO NOT WANT MIGRANTS BACK. So now what?
@SalamiAriannaNo Labels2yrs2Y
Yeah, China and Venezuela are two that I know of that won't take any of the illegals back. I guess it's going to come down to diplomacy - we will have to find some way to force them to take them back.
@ShyGeldingPatriot2yrs2Y
The feds can transport them and leave them inside their home airports. Wether the other countries want it or not. That's how the deportations usually occur. After that it's their issue
@SalamiAriannaNo Labels2yrs2Y
Venezuela will not let flights in from the United States and Mexico.
@LovesickEgalitarian2yrs2Y
And some Americans still think "they're sending their best". Wow I can't get over this.3
@TaxationBellaRepublican2yrs2Y
Trump instituted Visa holds for countries that refused to take deportations during his term, which worked out well because many of those countries depend greatly on remittance from the US, so it put a lot of pressure on those making the decisions.
Choose a country that is refusing and occupy an area with a major airfield. then set up a system of deportation flights until at least half of that nation's illegal immigrants have been deported.
After that happens once or twice, the smaller nations will fall into line.
Withhold any and all aid, tariff any products and make the deportation facilities as basic as possible. Either the countries will suffer the consequences or the illegals will self-deport. But that's just me.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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@9KBWPLD2yrs2Y
es una injusticia porque tanto ellos como otra persona tienen derecho de tener una vida mejor. a nadie se le debe negar una ayuda.
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