'He's selling the city': behind Eric Adams's New York City administration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : " The mayor's about-face could mark a significant victory in Trump's drive to crack down on efforts by US "sanctuary cities" to fight mass deportations by limiting their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
50% : " Adams's communications staff did not respond to requests for comment for this story, but in a statement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) praised the New York City mayor's recent willingness to work with the agency.
48% : "Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to.
42% : Their deal reversed longstanding New York City policy by letting federal immigration agents back onto Rikers Island, the city's jail complex that largely holds people who have been charged but not yet convicted of crimes.
39% : At first, Adams welcomed the asylum seekers, but he increasingly blamed them for the city's fiscal woes, as his administration struggled to fund shelters and services for tens of thousands with little help from state and federal Democrats.
39% : The mayor's anti-immigrant stance then went into overdrive late last year, soon after the re-election of Trump, whose administration in turn moved swiftly to free its newfound ally of federal corruption charges.
37% : The mayor of America's largest city is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald Trump This Valentine's Day, a new political power couple said their vows on the plush white couches of Fox & Friends in midtown Manhattan:
35% : Weeks after the election, the mayor, who had once declared that the city would 'ALWAYS stand up to' Trump and that immigrants fleeing oppression should remember they were 'ALWAYS welcome here', sounded like a different man This new Eric Adams declared that he was "not going to be warring" with Trump and derided those who had "snuck into this country".
20% : "Non-cooperative jurisdictions waste taxpayer money and government resources while putting their communities at risk," she said.

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