Mayor Eric Adams and incoming White House “border czar” Tom Homan are scheduled to meet on Thursday, with Hitzoner asking questions about President-elect Donald Trump's plan to deport known immigrant criminals and asking Biden He will share his thoughts on the administration's broken border policies, the Post reported. I learned.
The long-awaited meeting was scheduled to take place at City Hall around 1 p.m., with the two men scheduled to discuss New York City's immigration crisis and broader immigration issues at the federal level.
A person familiar with Mr. Adams' thinking said the mayor's agenda is to pick the new emperor's brain on how the administration can help eliminate criminal elements from the city's immigrant population.
“How can we work together to deport criminals rather than ordinary illegal immigrants,” the official said. “The focus is on known criminals that need to be removed.”
The meeting was originally scheduled for 10 a.m., but was postponed until 1 p.m. due to conflicts with Homan's schedule. Homan has vowed that sanctuary cities, including the Big Apple, will not stop deporting immigrant criminals.
Mr. Homan said he would carry out Mr. Trump's promise of mass deportations and threatened to withhold funding if sanctuary cities did not receive federal assistance.
Adams cannot unilaterally change the Big Apple's sanctuary city status, which would require support from the City Council, but some in his administration believe he could chip away at some of the policy through executive orders. I believe that it can be done.
Mr. Adams has taken a tougher stance in recent weeks on the city's sanctuary status, saying he is open to deporting immigrants after they are charged with a crime but before they are convicted and serve time in prison.
“Cancel it. I'm going to protect the people of this city,” he quipped.
Adams also hopes to share with Homan his experiences traveling in Latin America and meeting with local officials to discuss immigration. Also on the agenda is how the United States can benefit from the decompression strategy he launched last year, the people said.
The border crisis surrounding the Biden administration has brought an influx of tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the Big Apple, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Nearly 57,000 migrants remain in the city's custody, although their numbers have declined over the past year.
Federal aid for immigrants has become a top priority for Mr. Adams, as New Yorkers' dissatisfaction with the influx of immigrants has driven public opinion polls to historic lows and forced his administration to make deep budget cuts. .
