Immigration activists in New York Metropolis on Thursday slammed Mayor Eric Adam’s assembly with incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan, accusing him of “collaborating” with the brand new administration.
“It’s despicable that Mayor Adams continues to shirk his tasks to uphold New York Metropolis’s current insurance policies and values as a sanctuary metropolis by collaborating with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan,” Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, mentioned in a press release.
Adams will meet with Homan on Thursday afternoon. Adams had mentioned that he desires to take a seat down with Homan and speak about cooperation on deporting violent criminals particularly. Homan has repeatedly mentioned that public security threats would be the precedence for the anticipated mass deportation marketing campaign.
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Incoming border czar Tom Homan spoke with Dr. Phil concerning the Trump administration’s plan to deport unlawful migrants. (The Dr. Phil Podcast YouTube channel.)
“I’m not going to be warring with this administration, I’ll be working with this administration,” Adams mentioned final week. “President Trump is the president-elect. And whomever he chooses to run his businesses. I am wanting ahead to sitting down and see how can we higher New York.”
“I want to communicate with our border czar and discover out what his plans are. The place our frequent grounds are, we will work collectively. And I strongly consider, my historical past is sitting down with these throughout the aisle with other ways of considering and sit down and share my concepts,” he mentioned. “I consider I’ve some concepts that would take care of this problem, and we will attain what the American folks have been saying to us: Safe our borders, handle the people who find themselves committing violent acts in our nation and ensure that … our residents are going to be secure.”
However he additionally clarified that in any other case law-abiding immigrants “shouldn’t be rounded up in the course of the night time.”
Adams additionally had a message for critics from the left, telling them to “cancel me.”
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FILE – New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams speaks to reporters after a information convention in New York, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig, File)
“Effectively, cancel me, as a result of I’ll shield the folks of this metropolis, and if you happen to come into this nation, on this metropolis, and assume you are going to hurt harmless New Yorkers and harmless migrants and asylum seekers, this isn’t the mayor you wish to be in a metropolis underneath,” he mentioned.
However that has not stopped the criticism from activist teams over the assembly.
“New Yorkers know that underneath Homan ICE shall be used to divide us, cruelly focusing on and demonizing immigrants, whereas making each New Yorker much more unsafe, Awawdeh mentioned. “Too many people bear in mind the gunfire and avenue brawl that came about because of ICE’s actions in a residential Brooklyn neighborhood, in 2020, which resulted in an immigrant New Yorker being shot within the face.”
“Focusing on immigrants for arrests and deportation is harmful and diverts sources away from initiatives that truly promote security and well-being. Mayor Adams has an obligation to each New York household to keep up our public security by refusing to take part in ICE’s merciless, politicized immigration agenda.”
“Examine after examine exhibits that cities with massive immigrant populations are safer than these with fewer immigrants, and locations with sanctuary insurance policies have decrease crime charges. Adams is clearly prioritizing his personal political self-interest over the wants and the general public security of all New Yorkers,” Awawdeh mentioned.
Homan, in the meantime, mentioned final week that he was open to a gathering with Adams.
“I am prepared to satisfy with him, and I am prepared to satisfy with anyone to assist make their communities safer,” Homan mentioned on “America’s Newsroom” after being contacted by the Adams administration.
“Prioritization out of the gate is public security threats; work with us on that. It makes your group safer. It retains my officers secure. It retains the group secure. Let’s work collectively and get this finished.”
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Adams has taken a harder strategy to unlawful immigration than a lot of his Democratic counterparts, together with by suggesting that sanctuary insurance policies be rolled again to permit for the deportation of criminals. Different Democrats have promised to both resist or not help in deportation operations.
