Mayor Adams has dedicated to taking extra steps in working with the Trump Administration’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 section on Fox and Associates.
“But the mayor and me have committed to several other things that make this city safer.”
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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 by way of AP)
The discuss of extra 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.
That memo has sparked a fierce backlash that continued Friday as immigration advocates and native elected officers known as on Gov. Hochul to take away Mayor Adams from workplace at a rally exterior Metropolis Corridor.
“We have to protect all New Yorkers,” State Senator John Liu (D – Queens) mentioned. “At this point it seems like the governor is in the best position to do so.”
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Protestors rally exterior Metropolis Corridor, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to distance himself from President Donald Trump, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, a frequent Adams critic who acknowledged he’s subsequent within the line of succession ought to Adams be eliminated, echoed that decision.
“We have a deputy of Trump’s White House — we no longer have a mayor of New York City,” he mentioned. “I would ask the mayor to resign, but that would require him to have a love of the city above himself.”
Adams responded Friday to criticism that that the phrases of the dismissal of his case commit him to finishing up immigration insurance policies directed by the Trump White Home.
“I want to be crystal clear with New Yorkers: I never offered — nor did anyone offer on my behalf — any trade of my authority as your mayor for an end to my case. Never,” the mayor mentioned in a press release. “I am solely beholden to the 8.3 million New Yorkers that I represent and I will always put this city first.
“Now, we must put this difficult episode behind us so that trust can be restored, New York can move forward, and we can continue delivering for the people of this city.”
Mayor Eric Adams (far proper) meets with ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan (backside left) and native federal regulation enforcement officers in Manhattan, New York on Thursday, February 13, 2025. (Ed Reed / Mayoral Pictures Workplace)
Homan Friday offered few particulars concerning the extra collaboration between NYC and ICE, however indicated these tasks 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.”
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 Associates Friday. “I’m collaborating — against so many others who don’t want to collaborate.”
Adams additionally talked about the potential for working “with ICE, even on civil enforcement,” however hours later his workplace clarified that, saying in a press release: “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 in opposition to 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.
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Protestors rally exterior Metropolis Corridor, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to distance himself from President Donald Trump, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
Performing Manhattan U.S. Lawyer 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 extra costs for destroying and instructing others to do away with proof in addition to offering false data to the FBI — and that she’d been readying a superseding indictment in opposition to the mayor.
Sassoon mentioned within the letter that she attended a gathering on Jan. 31 with Adams’ authorized staff, wherein 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.”
Manhattan U.S. Lawyer Danielle Sassoon. (Southern District of New York)
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 Associates 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 section, 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 workplace, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’”
Protestors rally outside City Hall, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to distance himself from President Donald Trump, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)
The mayor and Holman’s Friday media appearances additionally included a 48-minute interview with self-help-guru-turned-Trump-booster Dr. Phil, posted Friday afternoon to X, the platform run by Trump lieutenant Elon Musk.
The interview centered largely on the Trump administration’s spurious declare that over 300,000 migrant youngsters are lacking — a declare that stems from a 2024 Homeland Safety Inspector Normal report that discovered immigration brokers weren’t persistently “monitor[ing] the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children” who had been launched from custody.
In that interview, Holman mentioned Adams had agreed to have the NYPD’s intelligence bureau assist federal immigration brokers.
Initially Revealed: February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM EST
