Mayor Adams slams NYC Council push to probe NYPD over alleged sanctuary metropolis violations

Mayor Eric Adams hit again Wednesday at Metropolis Council members’ push to probe the NYPD over alleged violations of the town’s sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines — saying they need to as an alternative be centered on “those that commit critical crimes.”

This week, mayoral candidate Speaker Adrienne Adams and Oversight Chair Gale Brewer despatched a letter to the town Division of Investigation accusing the NYPD of handing over info to the feds that’s being utilized in civil immigration proceedings.

“We’ve made it clear again and again that we’ll not collaborate with any businesses in terms of civil enforcement,” Adams shot again on CNN.

“The legislation doesn’t enable us to try this. However we are going to collaborate when it comes all the way down to legal enforcement.”

The Massive Apple’s sanctuary metropolis insurance policies typically restrict the town’s capacity to cooperate with the feds, particularly in terms of civil immigration enforcement.

Whereas the NYPD can work with them on legal investigations, the letter signers allege info from investigations is getting used to deport individuals who haven’t confronted any legal fees.

Within the letter — first reported by The Metropolis — the council members recommend Adams is compromised and beholden to the Trump administration to play ball on immigration points after his historic corruption case was tossed in April.

“This interference to drop legal fees towards the mayor has been attributed to the Trump administration’s need for his cooperation in civil immigration enforcement,” mentioned the letter, obtained by The Submit.

Adams famous, nevertheless, that the fees have been dismissed with prejudice, that means they’re “not coming again.”

In response to Adams’ CNN interview, council rep Rendy Desamours doubled down.

“We’ve all seen the mayor be unwilling to face as much as Trump or the overreach of ICE in our personal metropolis,” he mentioned.

“These are incidents that the NYPD has admitted it’s investigating, however the public nonetheless has no reply. The Council desires an impartial investigation to revive the belief that the mayor and these current incidents have undermined.”

The NYPD reiterated Wednesday that it isn’t concerned in civil immigration enforcement.

“Because it has for a few years, the NYPD works with native, state, and federal legislation enforcement businesses on legal investigations, together with work on federal legal job forces. That work is essential to getting harmful people out of our communities, defending our metropolis from terrorism, and holding our households secure,” a police spokesperson mentioned.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has repeatedly made the identical level.

“We are going to clearly proceed to work with our federal companions on legal issues, however an individual’s immigration standing just isn’t one thing that we observe, and we can not and won’t, by legislation, take part in civil immigration,” she has mentioned.