Embattled New York City mayor Eric Adams (D) indicated Wednesday that he’ll work with President elect Donald Trump’s administration to scale back the city’s laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Adams distinguished between sanctuary city laws to protect law-abiding taxpayers and the need to deport violent illegal immigrant criminals.

Unlike other blue city mayors, Adams is open to working with the Trump administration on its plans to mass deport violent criminals in the U.S. illegally.

“We both agreed on: violent individuals should not remain in our country,” Adams said during a Fox News interview, referring to his conversation with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan last week.

“We have laws here in the city on how that could be handled. My legal team is going to sit down with his legal team to make the determination if an executive order can change that.”

Homan is seeking access to Rikers Island, a notorious local jail that Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot gain access to under current city laws.

“There are exceptions to that. We are looking at those exceptions,” Adams said.

Homan praised Adams last week after their hour-long conversation, telling the New York Post he completely shifted his formerly progressive views on immigration.

“I truly believe sitting down with him, I saw the cop come out of him,” Homan stated. “I think he really wants to help with public safety threats and he really wants to help find these children.”

Adams also told Fox News that certain federal city laws “handcuffed” his ability to limit the flow of illegal immigrants into New York City by preventing him from putting them to work and giving them the right to housing.

He previously said that deportations from New York City would be reserved for illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes, not productive members of society or “DREAMers,” illegals who were brought to America as young children.

Adams is currently facing federal corruption and bribery charges related to alleged kickbacks he received from foreign nationals. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and considers them to be politically motivated.

Trump expressed openness to pardoning Adams during a press conference on Monday, but admitted that he needed more time to review the facts of Adams’s case, which was brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors.

“Yeah I would,” Trump replied to a question about whether he would consider a pardon.

“I’d have to see it because I don’t know the facts,” he added after expressing skepticism of the Adams. indictment.

Adams insisted to Fox that he has not asked Trump for a pardon in their conversations.