Mayor Eric Adams says NYC must 'modify' sanctuary laws, offering clearest stance to date

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Existing laws do not, however, permit the city to cooperate with federal immigration authorities if a foreign national has merely been accused of a crime.
52% : Their statement also noted existing laws don't prevent feds from carrying out immigration enforcement actions; they just bar the city government from using municipal resources to assist such actions.
51% : They can have due process, but we should be communicating with ICE, and if ICE makes the determination of deporting, then they should, so no one's taking away from anyone's due process.
45% : "I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who I believe subscribed to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable," Adams told reporters at City Hall.
45% : "These protections aim to ensure that New York City complies with the constitutional requirement of probable cause when working with ICE to detain someone.
44% : The sanctuary laws, which date back to the 1980s, prohibit city government workers and agencies from helping federal immigration authorities with tracking down and detaining immigrants residing in the five boroughs for deportation purposes.
43% : "Instead of attempting to gut these fundamental protections, causing terror among our immigrant neighbors and putting countless New Yorkers in danger of being separated from their families and deported without due process, Mayor Adams should be working to support pending measures to strengthen detainer laws," the groups' statement added, referencing legislation introduced in the City Council.
42% : Back then, ICE even had an outpost on Rikers Island, a reality advocates and Democrats labeled cruel and damaging to the city's reputation as a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
41% : He pointed to a recent NYPD bust of a Bronx robbery ring allegedly involving migrants while arguing for allowing cooperation with ICE in cases of suspected crimes, not just convicted crimes.
39% : The mere fact we cannot share with ICE that this person has committed three robberies, that this person is part of an organized gang crew, mere fact that we can't say that, and can't communicate with that, is problematic for me.
39% : Before that, city agencies like the NYPD and the Department of Correction were able to detain undocumented immigrants charged with crimes on behalf of ICE until the federal agency could take over custody and process them for deportation.

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