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Democratic mayor of New York City Eric Adams said he is working to change the city’s sanctuary laws to cooperate with federal authorities on the deportation of illegal immigrants with criminal records.

NYC is a sanctuary that prohibits city officials from cooperating with the federal government in enforcing laws targeting illegal immigrants.

Mayor Adams recently met with Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, to work on a plan to deport dangerous illegal immigrants.

“We both agreed on: violent individuals should not remain in our country,” Adams told Fox News in an exclusive interview with Martha MacCallum.

However, he lamented some federal and city laws that prevent him from fully cooperating with Homan or reducing the flow of illegal immigrants into the Big Apple. 

He specifically highlighted federal laws that prevented him from turning away illegal immigrants or putting them to work to earn a living instead of depending on government aid.  He also cited some city laws that guarantee anyone the right to shelter for an indefinite amount of time. 

Adams said he went to court to challenge some of the existing laws to stop the flow of illegal immigrants by reducing the time of stay from indefinite to 30 days. That policy change helped reduce the number of new arrivals from 220,000 to 50,000.

Trump’s border czar also aims to reopen Rikers Island, a notorious prison complex that houses detainees awaiting trial, as one of the flash points for deportation. But Adams cannot grant the request due to the city’s sanctuary laws, which prohibit cooperation with the federal government on immigration.

“The law that was passed under the previous administration said that no ICE officer can be in any governmental building,” Adams said. “There are exceptions to that. We are looking at those exceptions.”

Adams also said he is considering whether an executive order could help his administration circumvent some of the city’s sanctuary laws and cooperate with ICE on deportation. “We have laws here in the city on how that could be handled. My legal team is going to sit down with his legal team to make the determination if an executive order can change that.”

Adams also intends to work with Homan to recover more than 320,000 migrant children trafficked into the country whose whereabouts remain unknown. Homan worries that the missing children could have been abused in transit and could be in danger of sex trafficking.

Meanwhile, Homan had nice words for Adams, who he described as genuinely interested in helping New Yorkers and finding the missing children. “I truly believe sitting down with him, I saw the cop come out of him,” Homan stated. “I think he really wants to help with public safety threats and he really wants to help find these children.”

Nevertheless, other mayors of deep blue cities, such as Chicago and Boston, have vowed to fight Trump to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. 

Similarly, Adams has opposed the deportation of “working” illegal immigrants without a criminal record and pay taxes. He also defended DREAMers, illegal immigrants who entered the country as children and lived continuously since 2007. 

Trump has also proposed working with Democrats on a solution to allow DREAMers to stay in the country to attain legal citizenship.

Nonetheless, Trump intends his deportation plan to extend to other illegal immigrants, including those without criminal records. While Mayor Adams’ willingness to cooperate in deporting illegal immigrants with a criminal record falls short of this goal, it is a step in the right direction.

Adams also faces federal charges over alleged corruption and bribery from foreign individuals, allegations he has denied.