ICE Policy Puts Mayor Adams On Collision Course With Gov Hochul — Here’e The 411

Hizzoner has come to grips with how serious a problem illegal immigration is… Gov Kathy Hochul, not so much. With Tom Homan ramping up his work in NYC, conflict between them was inevitable.

With Hochul still all-in on the Biden-era attitude to immigration, she and Adams are pulling in opposite directions.

Hocul is drawing a line in the sand, acting as if State laws concerning illegal immigration can over-rule Federal laws concerning illegal immigration. Unfortunately for Hochul, SCOTUS has already answered the question about which level of government has authority over questions of illegal immigration.

And with federal dollars that have been funding those NGOs that keep their illegal alien scheme afloat, feeding and housing them all is about to get far more difficult.

Mayor Adams, on the other hand, sees room to work with Tom Homan. Especially with removing known criminals (many of them repeat offenders) from the streets. Maybe working with the NYPD had something to do with that difference in approach.

Homan was optimistic going into yesterday’s meeting with Adams…

The border czar has, however, praised Adams in the past for signaling interest in cooperating with the Trump administration’s effort to root out illegal migrants with rap sheets and locate hundreds of thousands of unaccounted for migrant kids.

“He’s all in on addressing public safety threats that are here illegally and helping me find these missing children,” Homan told WABC 770 AM’s “Cats & Cosby Show”.

“I’m hoping we come to an agreement where his officers will help my officers remove these public safety threats, especially Tren de Aragua and the other alien gangs that are creating havoc in New York,” Homan added.

“So, let’s hope Thursday night I head back to DC with a great agreement,” the border czar added, noting that he “won’t count my pennies till I got’em.”  — NYPost

And how did that meeting go?

“We are now working on implementing an executive order that will reestablish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — as was the case for 20 years,” he continued.
[…] Adams said in his statement that the ICE agents would be focused specifically on “assisting the correctional intelligence bureau in their criminal investigations, in particular those focused on violent criminals and gangs.”

Adams also said he talked to Homan about ways that New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives could be embedded into federal task forces to help address “violent gangs” and crime. — The Hill

As I write this article, Tom Homan and Mayor Adams are sitting together on a panel at Fox & Friends talking about what’s next.

The Governor isn’t happy about any of this, naturally.

But what can she do about it?

That depends on how desperate she gets, and how willing she is to claim that the ‘real’ reason the DOJ dropped the case against Adams differs from the one that AG Bondi has given us.

Gov. Kathy Hochul did not rule out removing New York City Mayor Eric Adams during a Thursday night cable news appearance following a series of resignations by federal prosecutors who refused to drop corruption charges against the mayor. The new comments are in stark contrast to those she made just days ago, when she balked at the prospect of removal.

News broke in numerous outlets on Thursday that now-former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon had resigned from her post in the Southern District over the Department of Justice demand to drop the charges against Adams. In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Sassoon said her office was preparing to bring additional charges against Adams and also claimed that lawyers for Adams all but explicitly asked for a quid pro quo agreement with the Justice Department to drop the charges in exchange for cooperation with immigration enforcement. Following Sassoon’s resignation, at least five other top Justice Department officials reportedly resigned after refusing to seek dismissal of the case against Adams.

Will Hochul try to remove Eric Adams from office?

Speaking on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Hochul said she had seen the letter Sassoon sent to Bondi and called the allegations that Sassoon made about Adams “extremely serious and concerning.” Although Hochul said that she did not want to have a “knee-jerk” reaction to the latest developments, she kept the door open to the prospect of removal when asked about it. “I’m consulting with other leaders in government at this time,” she told Maddow, adding that there needs to be “one sane person in the state who can cut through all the crap.” Because the latest revelations are so new, Hochul said, she needed “some time to process this and figure out the right approach.” — CityAndStateNY

Adams is prioritizing this as a public safety question. HE called for the meeting. The emphasis will be on deporting dangerous criminals and locating the missing children.