Mayor Adams Looking to Bypass Sanctuary City Laws to HELP President Trump Deport Illegals

New York City Mayor Eric Adams just said that he is looking into ways to bypass the city’s “sanctuary city” laws in order to help President Trump deport illegal immigrants.

While discussing his upcoming meeting with incoming border czar Tom Homan, Mayor Adams told CBS TV’s Marcia Kramer that he is considering issuing an executive order to allow for deportation of illegal immigrants from NYC.

He also said that “public safety” is his top priority and he wants to deport criminal illegal aliens first.

Watch:

BREAKING: Eric Adams just said he is weighing using his power as mayor to bypass NYC's sanctuary city designation to allow President Trump to deport illegals.

“They [City Council] stated they’re not willing to change the sanctuary city law. I think they’re wrong. I have my teams… pic.twitter.com/pWa9WuHyB1

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Full interview here:

For those who prefer to read, here’s a partial transcript of Mayor Adams’ interview, from NYC.gov:

Kramer: Should there be more cooperation with ICE agents, though?

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Mayor Adams: Yes, I do believe that. I stated this prior to the election. And this is what gets me, Marcia. People are saying, okay, after the president elect is coming in, Eric is now saying different things. No, I was saying this prior to the election. I was saying those who are committing crimes in our city must be addressed. And we should change the current sanctuary city law to address that issue. Bloomberg knew that, Mayor Koch knew that, the previous administration altered that. And I thought it was a big mistake.

Kramer: So do you think you have any chance of re-altering or re-changing it so that there’s more cooperation?

Mayor Adams: Well, the City Council made it clear they don’t want to change that. They stated they’re not willing to change the sanctuary city law. I think they’re wrong. I have my teams looking at my power as executive orders.

Kramer: Is it possible you could do an executive order?

Mayor Adams: We’re looking at that. The legal team, the corporation counsel that they just approved, they’re looking at, the office is looking at. Do I have the power to do so? I have to protect the people of this city. That is my north star. It always has been. And if you are committing crimes on migrants, on immigrants, undocumented, documented, it’s all the same to me. And I want to address that.

Kramer: So I want to understand this. You’re thinking of an executive order that would allow you to change the sanctuary city laws so there could be more cooperation with the feds.

Mayor Adams: No. I told the corporation counsel, give me what are my options. I want to know what my options are. As I stated almost a year ago, I want to look at those who are committing serious violent felonies in our city. And I want to know what are my powers. Once the City Council made it clear, we’re not changing the sanctuary city laws to allow ICE to go after those dangerous offenders. Once they made that clear, I went to plan B and said, what are my options and my powers?

Kramer: And you want to see if you can make that, you can change that.

Mayor Adams: Yes, I want to see. And I want to be able to sit down with the Border czar, and say, here’s my concern. And we’re looking at ways that I could use my executive power to go after those dangerous, dangerous, violent people. I sent to South America, to Colombia, the intelligence deputy commissioner and my first deputy commissioner. And they did a deep dive into this dangerous game that is making their way up from Venezuela. And these are dangerous people.

Kramer: And you want to keep them out of the city.

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Mayor Adams: Yes, I do. And everyday New Yorkers want to do that.