


Mayor Adams seems to have had enough of being mugged by reality: He’s finally suggesting changes to the city’s sanctuary laws so cops can cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on migrants suspected of committing serious crimes.
“I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors, who I believe subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable,” he says.
Hear, hear.
The Big Apple’s sanctuary laws have been a recipe for a public-safety disaster.
Though the majority of migrants are law-abiding, Adams adds, those who aren’t shouldn’t be allowed to “hide under” Gotham’s sanctuary laws.
In recent months, New Yorkers have seen a surge in migrant crime, some with connections to violent gangs and growing rap sheets in just their short time here.
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The city’s sanctuary laws make it illegal for municipal agencies to notify ICE or provide it with any information about migrants suspected of most crimes.
If Adams manages to have those laws reversed or significantly modified, federal deportation proceedings would be triggered once a migrant’s criminal case is concluded.
Yet pro-criminal, pro-migrant progressives are already fighting him: Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has already shot down the mayor’s trial balloon on sanctuary laws.
Adams can try to end-run any council opposition with his own executive orders (there’s both a migrant crisis and crime emergency, right?), but legislation, or even a charter revision, would provide more of a lasting impact.
The public would surely back him up.
New Yorkers may welcome migrants with open arms, but those who repay that kindness by attacking their hosts deserve no such generosity.
When they’re even just suspected of crimes, the feds clearly have a role to play.
Pray Adams succeeds in scrapping Gotham’s sanctuary-city lunacy.