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Reporters Grill Eric Adams Over Trump 'Initiative Targeting People At Immigration Hearings'
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6/3/2025
During a press briefing, NYC Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the Trump Administration arresting people at immigration hearings.
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Going back to Dylan's case, and I get your point that mayors have limited power here,
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but you are someone who's met with the President before and have spoken about how you're,
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I think your goal when doing that is to help New York City. If you were to sit down with
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President Trump, or the next time you do, would you explicitly tell him that this strategy,
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his administration's strategy, of making arrests at these hearings, that you disagree with that,
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and you would like that to not happen in the city?
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Listen, I say this over and over again, and that's why people like talking to me,
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because I don't go into private conversations. You know, you don't hear me calling you,
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giving you tips and leaks. People are comfortable with speaking with me, because I don't go into
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private conversations. And so any conversation I have in a private conversation with the President,
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I will tell you about an outcome of something, but I'm not going to go into private conversations.
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But again, I'm going to say again to you, to all of you, there are other offices in this city.
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I really believe that thorough journalism will start asking the questions to those who are empowered
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to deal with this issue. Federal authorities are empowered to deal with this issue. And dealing
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with this issue is not merely holding rallies. Go to the federal authorities who are elected to handle
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this issue. I'm elected to handle city issues. I'm elected to have 230,000 people come into the city.
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I'm elected to educate their children. I'm elected to put in programs where allow them to get work
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authorization. All the things that I am required to do, I'm doing. Federal lawmakers have to deal with
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immigration reform and all of those other issues around what is playing out. That's the job of
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federal officials. Why is that challenging to understand?
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JR, what's up, man? How are you?
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Good afternoon, Mr.
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Sorry to cut you off. I'm so sorry.
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Yeah, yeah. Just on that point, okay, so you don't want to talk about your private
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discussions with the President. Would you publicly call on him right now to roll back this new
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initiative to target people at immigration hearings?
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Well, I think the amicus brief points out what our position is on that. I would ask all of you to
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read the amicus briefs and see what our public position is. The public position is clear. I have
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not moved away from my position. I have not vacillated back and forth. It's very clear. The amicus brief
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point out, I don't want people to be fearful to go to court.
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