Mayor Adams is scheduled for a high-stakes assembly with President-elect Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan Thursday amid rising worry amongst immigrants and advocates over the incoming president and his threats to hold out mass deportations.
The Trump administration’s immigration insurance policies might have far-reaching results in New York, and advocacy organizations are planning to rally exterior Metropolis Corridor Thursday in protest of the assembly. And Wednesday, the Authorized Help Society, Coalition for the Homeless and 20 different advocacy teams despatched a letter to Adams calling on him to guard undocumented immigrants from deportations.
“[It] is imperative that the City take immediate measures to protect both immigrants who have long resided in our community as well as the newest New Yorkers from the draconian and harmful actions being threatened by the incoming presidential administration in the new year,” reads the letter.
Homan is charged with finishing up a few of Trump’s main tough-on-immigration marketing campaign guarantees, together with growing deportations and slowing the stream of recent immigrants to the U.S.
Adams, who upset members of his personal celebration with sharp criticism of President Biden’s method on the southern border, has stated he’s open to discussing new approches with the incoming administration, though he has stated he opposes mass deportations.
The mayor stated Monday he desires to have a “host of conversations” with the incoming border czar and desires to share methods on how one can safe the border and create a “real decompression strategy.”
“I’m interested to hear his ideas on how we’re going to go about that,” Adams stated of the upcoming assembly. “And I’m excited about the conversation.”
A spokesperson for the mayor declined to share particulars. Homan was initially slated to talk with each the mayor and conservative members of the Metropolis Council, however known as off the assembly with the council members on account of scheduling causes, a supply stated.
The assembly comes because the mayor of late has revived a debate over altering New York’s sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines, which restrict native authorities’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Town’s present legal guidelines solely enable metropolis authorities to show undocumented immigrants over to ICE in the event that they’ve been convicted of a critical crime.
Adams has stated he’s open to altering the legal guidelines in order that these deported might embody these accused, not simply convicted, of crimes.
The mayor confronted fierce backlash final week after he stated that individuals who entered the nation illegally aren’t entitled to the identical rights as residents. “I’m an American,” Adams stated, in feedback he later walked again in an interview with WNYC. “Americans have certain rights. The Constitution is for Americans, and I’m not a person that snuck into this country.”
The advocates rallying Thursday stated they deliberate to denounce Adams’ resolution to fulfill with Homan and to name on the mayor to uphold present sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines.
Homan, who has been outspoken about taking a troublesome method even in cities protected by sanctuary legal guidelines, likewise stated he was trying ahead to assembly with Adams: “I’m looking for partnerships. I’m not looking for enemies.”
Homan took a distinct tone not too long ago when speaking about Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. At an occasion earlier this week within the Windy Metropolis, Homan declared Chicago could be his first goal for mass deportations.
“Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan stated on the occasion.
“Cruelty, not public safety or security, is Trump’s objective,” Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, stated in a press release. “By directing attacks on immigrants to sensitive locations like schools, churches and hospitals, he shows a callous disregard for vulnerable children and the public safety of every New Yorker.”
Awawdeh demanded New York refuse “to participate in ICE’s cruel, politicized immigration agenda” and inspired Gov. Hochul and state elected officers to cross laws blocking New York’s state and native authorities companies from sharing delicate data with ICE.
The Adams administration on Tuesday introduced its plans to shut the Floyd Bennett Area tent shelter, which is situated on federal land, and transfer out all the present occupants by Trump’s inauguration — getting forward of any potential plans from the Trump administration to cancel the lease or to raid the shelter to deport individuals.
Initially Printed: December 11, 2024 at 6:40 PM EST
