Mayor Adams has dedicated to taking further steps in working the the Trump Adminsitarion’s immigration crackdown, border czar Tom Homan mentioned in a Friday morning TV look with the mayor.
“We’re working on some other things we don’t really want to talk about in open air, just because the City Council will be putting up roadblocks on us,” Homan mentioned whereas sitting subsequent to Adams throughout a phase on Fox and Pals.
“But the mayor and me have committed to several other things that make this city safer.”
The discuss of further collaboration comes amid a extremely uncommon order from the Trump Justice Division, which Monday directed prosecutors to drop Adams’ federal corruption indictment — whereas additionally directing it must be reviewed for potential re-prosecution after November’s mayoral election.
DOJ officers wrote in Monday’s order that dropping the case will allow Adams to assist advance Trump’s hardline immigration agenda, which incorporates pledges to launch “mass deportations” of all undocumented individuals within the nation.
Homan Friday supplied few particulars concerning the further collaboration between NYC and ICE, however indicated these initiatives included efforts to roll again the town’s sanctuary legal guidelines — which Trump has made clear he belives are unlawful obstructions.
“City Council — I don’t like ’em,” Homan continued. “Mayor Adams is dealing with a sanctuary law that an [executive order] can’t override — we’re working on some things to work around some of these things.”
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President Donald Trump’s border czar Thomas Homan (left) Mayor Adams (proper) and others meet in New York on Thursday. (Ed Reed/Workplace of the Mayor of New York through AP)
The looks got here the day after Adams’ Thursday announcement, following a closed-doors assembly with Homan, that he’d issued an govt order permitting federal immigration brokers to “operate” on Rikers Island — a transfer that seems to fly within the face of New York Metropolis’s sanctuary legal guidelines.
“I’m not standing in the way,” Adams mentioned on Fox and Pals Friday. “I’m collaborating — against so many others who don’t want to collaborate.”
Adams additionally talked about the potential of working “with ICE, even on civil enforcement,” however hours later his workplace clarified that, saying in an announcement: “I am not opening the door to civil immigration enforcement with the federal government.”
Requested concerning the Justice Division memo Friday, Adams — sitting alongside Homan — mentioned the Biden administration had “weaponized” the division towards him, characterizing his federal costs as “legroom turning into bribery” — a reference to the Turkish Airways upgrades prosecutors alleged he obtained in return for fast-tracking the Turkish Consulate’s fire-code approvals.
Appearing Manhattan U.S. Legal professional Danielle Sassoon, a Trump appointee, resigned Thursday over the order to drop the case, saying in a letter to Secretary of Justice Pam Bondi that, if something, Adams ought to face further costs for destroying and instructing others to eliminate proof in addition to offering false data to the FBI — and that she’d been readying a superseding indictment towards the mayor.
Sassoon mentioned within the letter that she attended a gathering on Jan. 31 with Adams’ authorized workforce, by which she mentioned the mayor’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.”
Adams rejected that interpretation when requested about it on Fox.
“That’s a crime,” Adams mentioned. “It took her three weeks to report, in front of her, a criminal action? Come on. This is silly.”
“They can refile the charges at any time — if you don’t help them, they can refile the charges,” Fox and Pals host Steve Doocy mentioned to Adams.
“That’s not what they said,” Adams interrupted.
“They can refile the charges,” Doocy mentioned once more.
“I don’t get into the legalese,” Adams replied. “I have an attorney to do that, and I pay a lot for him.”
On the finish of the phase, Homan reiterated his expectation that Adams would play ball.
“If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City, and we won’t be sitting on [this] couch,” the border czar mentioned. “I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’”
Initially Printed: February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM EST
