Mayor Eric Adams appears to call for modifying New York City's sanctuary city status

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Existing laws prohibit the city to cooperate with the federal immigration authorities if a foreign national has been charged with a crime but not convicted.
41% : "What Mayor Eric Adams seeks would result in local law enforcement being able to transfer New Yorkers merely suspected of a crime to ICE, upending local criminal court proceedings while perpetuating family separation and dividing communities," the group said in a statement.
39% : Adams said on Tuesday 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," the mayor said during a news conference.
36% : "If you commit a felony, a violent act, we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported.

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