New York City Mayor Eric Adams is meeting with incoming border czar Tom Homan on Thursday at City Hall, where the former is expected to direct the talks toward weeding out the criminal element from the tens of thousands of illegal migrants that remain in the city, the New York Post reported.
Adams, a Democrat, plans to share his thoughts on the failed border policies of the outgoing Biden administration while inquiring about details of President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.
In recent weeks, Adams has taken a tougher stance on deporting criminals from the illegal migrant population of nearly 57,000 despite New York City's status as a sanctuary city. While Adams can't unilaterally change that, he has mulled using executive action to bypass the city council on some of those policies while pledging to work with the incoming Trump administration.
"We're looking at ways that I can use my executive power to go after those dangerous, violent people," the mayor told CBS News.
All of which Adams plans to bring up with Homan while pushing back on deporting every illegal migrant, according to the report.
"How can we work together to deport criminals not regular undocumented people," a source told the Post. "The focus is on known offenders who need to be removed."
Homan, however, has said that just by nature of being in the country illegally, migrants are criminals.
"Every illegal alien in this country who entered this country illegally is a criminal by definition," Homan told Newsmax last month. "If they're deported and came back, it's a felony. So they're not law-abiding. They broke the law coming to the United States, and we're going to find them, and we're going to deport them."
But he, too, has placed a priority on deporting violent criminals first.
"Tren de Aragua, MS-13 — they're on notice. Their days of terror are coming to an end. My gang is bigger than their gang. And they're going to be a priority. We need to get them out of here," Homan said.
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