New York :
Mayor Eric Adams appeared to support a modification of laws that make New York a sanctuary city. Adams said on Tuesday during a news conference that migrants who commit serious crimes should be deported and the city should be able to communicate with federal ICE agents.
“We should not be allowing people who are repeatedly committing crimes to remain here and we cannot collaborate with ICE in the process,” he added.
Existing laws prohibit the city from cooperating with the federal immigration authorities if a foreign national has been charged with a crime but not convicted.
The New York City Council has exhibited no interest in modifying the laws, which were strengthened in 2014 during the de Blasio administration, but some Republicans welcomed the mayor’s remarks.
Earlier Mayor adams said in a responding to a question “We got nothing out of Albany last year around housing. 51 percent of the housing we built came through 421-a. We didn’t have a renewal of 421-a. We’re trying to raise FAR. We’re attempting to do accessory dwellings.
“We have to build more. And when you have a failure to have vacancy rates, I think we’re down to one percent, that failure is going to produce desperate situations, and we cannot create those desperate situations. And so the DM is right, we have to build more. We have an inventory issue in the city and people should be living in unsafe environments”, he added.
We’re going to do our job to investigate them, give them the appropriate shelter system. But the reality is, with 180,000 people entering the city also looking for housing, over 65,000 currently in our system, if we don’t build more, we are going to be building more problems, Said Mayor.
