New York City (NYC) Mayor Eric Adams appeared to rescind immigration laws enacted after the city was deemed a sanctuary city during a Monday night rally at City Hall, video footage shows. became.
A clip of the City Hall meeting with Adams was posted on X (formerly Twitter) by Leeroy Johnson, an independent photographer who captured the moment the Democratic mayor appeared to be repealing the sanctuary city law. In the video, residents were seen waiting in line for what appeared to be a Q&A session with Adams.
It's unclear why Adams started talking about the city's ongoing immigration crisis, but he said the Sanctuary Cities Act, which allows authorities to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed felonies or acts of violence, needs to be amended. Stated. (Related: Blue city law allowing non-citizens to vote is ruled unconstitutional)
“I still don’t understand why the federal government would do that. [isn’t] to enable them to work. They need the right to work, just like all of us who came to this country had the ability to work. But we need to amend the Sanctuary City Act to allow for the small number of people who have committed crimes to be turned over to ICE and deported if they commit felonies or violent acts,'' Adams said, adding that the audience could I applauded.
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During the town hall meeting, @NYCMayor New York City has amended its Sanctuary City Law to require immigrants who commit felonies to be turned over to ICE for deportation.
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In another video posted online by Johnson, Adams was seen saying his hands were legally tied on many of the ongoing questions surrounding the city's immigration crisis. The Democratic mayor continued to emphasize that New York City is approaching this issue “unlike other cities,” and urged people to compare New York City to other cities dealing with the same issues.
“People say to me all the time. When they see me on the street, they say, 'Eric, why don't you stop the buses from coming?' We can't because it's against the law. 'Why not let people who want to work work? No?’ That’s against the law – federal law – I can’t do it. “Why do you say we have to contain all those people?” [comes] in? 'Because that's the law. “Why don't we deport people who commit crimes and harm people who aren't doing the right thing? We can't because that's against the law,” Adams said.
“So I'm inheriting a national crisis and we have to solve it, and we're solving that crisis like any other city, folks. Google other cities Please. You don't see tent cities in New York. You don't see children and families sleeping on the streets in New York. The team here has come through every crisis.”
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During a town hall meeting, @NYCMayor He explains that by law, immigrants must be detained and that federal law prevents buses and planes from being turned around. He also said he and his team did a better job than any state or city.
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Since last year, Blue City has been working on a number of issues related to the large number of illegal immigrants arriving in New York City on buses from Texas. Mayor Adams appeared to have turned the crisis upside down as he cut aid to immigrants by roughly 30% in total and imposed curfews on some shelters, but the mayor also handed out advance credits, Announced $53 million in new taxpayer-funded programs. Issue cards to illegal immigrants in the city.
New York City also received significant media attention in late January when two New York City police officers were shown being attacked by a group of illegal immigrants in Times Square. Some of the migrants involved in the attack were arrested but quickly released after their cameras went viral after they turned off their cameras as they left the courthouse.
