NYC Mayor Adams Trying to Wriggle Free from Sanctuary City Restrictions; Has “Same Desire” as Trump

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NYC Mayor Adams Trying to Wriggle Free from Sanctuary City Restrictions; Has “Same Desire” as Trump Border Czar
Posted on December 13, 2024 by Yves Smith

Yves here. New York City’s Mayor Tom Adams complained early and often about how the Biden liberalization of southern border entry resulted in a migrant influx that taxed city services, particularly to the homeless. That plus his former life as a police officer makes it not surprising that he would like to cooperate with the Trump Administration push to round up “criminal” illegal immigrants. But how does this square with sanctuary city laws?

Note that it is not clear that Trump’s campaign will be anywhere near as aggressive as originally signaled. Early talk of “mass deportations” which would take a massive amount of resources, appear to have been scaled back to a still pretty tall order of finding and removing the roughly 1.3 million immigrants with final deportation orders. As for the idea of deporting “criminals,” the numbers are not negligible but does include those who already left the US on their own. Nevertheless, from NBC in 2024:
 
According to ICE’s fiscal year 2023 budget justification, there were 405,786 convicted criminal immigrants on the non-detained docket as of June 5, 2021, just under five months after Trump left office, indicating many crossed during the Trump administration. As of July of this year, according to the data provided by ICE to Rep. Gonzales, over 435,719 convicted criminal immigrants were on ICE’s non-detained docket.

As the article below explains, Adams would like to cooperate with acting ICE director on criminal removals. It points out that Adams ducked the question of exactly what “criminal” meant in this context, as in whether it included suspects, who do have due process rights. But it would seem that ICE detention for the purpose of pursing a case against them would not violate due process requirements.1

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/nyc-mayor-adams-trying-to-wriggle-free-from-sanctuary-city-restrictions-has-same-desire-as-trump-border-czar.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

A one-way bus ticket to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is the most cost-effective means for New York City to deal with illegal immigrants.  Bus tickets are cheaper than hotel rooms.

Those that have the power to do something won't do anything until the problem is in their backyard.

The best thing mayors and Governors could do is to bus migrants to the greater DC area so the issue is in Congressmen's, Senators', and staffers' towns, schools, and daily lives.

Make them feel our pain.

I believe Dems call it "good trouble".