NEW YORK (PIX11) -- Mayor Eric Adams is making it loud and clear that undocumented migrants who are criminals don’t have a place in the city and should be deported.
Mayor Adams is not in favor of mass deportation but believes the city should cooperate to send back violent migrants to their country of origin.
Adams has blamed the Biden Administration for the 6.4 billion dollars the city has spent on the roughly quarter million asylum seekers who’ve come to NYC since 2022.
“Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting up at police officers, raping innocent people, who have been a harm to our country, those are the people I am talking about,” said Adams.
The mayor stated on Tuesday he plans on meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homen to work on a deportation strategy for those disrupting the Big Apple.
”I would love to sit down with the border czar and hear his thoughts on how we are going to address those who are harming our cities,” added Adams.
Immigrant-led organizations such as Make The Road New York say that this will only put immigrant New Yorkers against each other. Adding that Adams is looking out for his own interests as he faces criminal charges.
“Homen is a family separation czar. He said that entire immigrant families could be deported,” stated Yatziri Tovar from Make The Road NY.
“It is disappointing now to continue to see the mayor not standing up to that and instead trying to cozy up to an administration for a possible pardon,” she added.
But professor and political analyst, J.C. Polanco says this is a breath of fresh air for New Yorkers.
“The sad part is that the crimes committed are often against the migrant community itself so the notion we are not going to work with the new border czar on getting rid of the criminal element in the migrant community is outrageous,” said Polanco.
Adams did make it clear that those undocumented immigrants who are working hard and not committing crimes should be given a chance at the “American dream”
“Those people should not be rounded up in the middle of the night,” he said. “These are people who love our country and they’re participating in our country,” said the Mayor.
Tovar on the other hand, is concerned history will repeat itself.
“We saw the families’ separation; we heard the children crying at the detention centers. We know that a trump administration is not going to distinguish between immigrants, we know he wants to come for all our communities,” she said.
As of last week, about 56,000 migrants remain under the care of New York City.
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