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New York Dem Tells Adams It’s Time To Turn ‘Tough Talk’ On Immigration Into Action
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By Jason Hopkins
New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared that he is willing to work with the Trump administration to help crack down on illegal migrant crime, but a fellow Democrat is pushing him to prove he means what he’s saying.
Adams said Tuesday that he is prepared to sit down with soon-to-be border czar Tom Homan to discuss the incoming administration’s plans to deport criminal illegal migrants out of the Big Apple, and he dared his opponents to “cancel me” if they aren’t happy with it. However, NYC Council Member Robert Holden, a Democrat and co-chairman of the moderate Common-Sense Caucus, responded by pushing the mayor to “show his commitment” by rolling back a number of sanctuary policies that are holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents back.
“Tough talk is good, but actions speak louder,” Holden said in a Wednesday statement. “The Mayor had the chance to amend or repeal sanctuary city laws through his Charter Revision Commission but chose not to.”
“Now, it’s time to right these wrongs,” Holden continued. “To truly show commitment to public safety, Mayor Adams should reopen the ICE office at Rikers Island and give the NYPD, DOC [Department of Corrections], and DOP [Department of Probation] the ability to communicate with ICE and honor detainers for criminal migrants.”
NYC’s status as a sanctuary city has long been a contentious issue with local leaders, especially in recent months as a spate of high-profile crimes allegedly committed by illegal migrants have become national headlines.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014 signed into law a bill that largely prohibits the New York Police Department from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, and he enacted legislation in 2018 that doubled down on the policy. A major facet of de Blasio’s sanctuary city rollout was the eviction of ICE agents from Rikers Island, a major prison facility located in The Bronx.
Barring ICE agents from prison facilities makes their job incredibly more difficult and dangerous because they are forced to make apprehensions of criminal migrants out in the public, federal immigration authorities argue.
NYC has been hit particularly hard by the national immigration crisis. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers have landed in the Big Apple since 2022 and officials have burned through billions of taxpayer dollars trying to manage the situation, according to city officials. The crisis has forced Adams to grow increasingly less sympathetic to the city’s sanctuary laws.
However, when Common Sense Caucus members introduced legislation earlier this year that would’ve rolled back sanctuary city legislation, it went nowhere in the NYC Council, which is dominated by liberal lawmakers. Members of the moderate caucus group said Adams could’ve done more to bring the issue to voters when he created the Charter Revision Commission, which had the authority to hand the decision to voters by placing it on the November ballot.
“The fact is that our city’s sanctuary city status has become deeply unpopular, even among Democrat voters, and was almost certain to be defeated by voters if a vote was allowed,” GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation in July after the Commission opted not to include a referendum on the sanctuary city laws this year.
“But once again, the party which lectures us about ‘democracy’ is not actually interested in practicing it,” she continued.
In response to Homan’s declaration that he would not tolerate sanctuary city leaders getting in the way of his upcoming crackdown on illegal immigration, Holden wrote a letter to Adams, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other local leaders urging them to change course because “federal statute explicitly prohibits the harboring, shielding, or concealing of illegal aliens, particularly those engaged in criminal activities.”
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
The Trump administration will soon push the United Nations (UN) to rewrite the international asylum rules, calling the current framework a “haphazard and chaotic system” routinely abused by bad actors, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed.
U.S. officials are planning an event later this month during the UN’s annual General Assembly to spotlight reforms aimed at curbing asylum abuses that have “disrupted entire regions, enriched criminal cartels and violated the sovereignty of nations,” a State Department spokesperson told the DCNF. Proposed changes include requiring migrants to seek protection in the first country they enter rather than “asylum shopping” for a destination of choice.
“The United States plans to begin a conversation on reforming an outdated, decades-old system that has long been abused by bad actors and economic migrants to fuel the global migration crisis,” the spokesperson told the DCNF.
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Most countries, including the U.S., are signatories to UN treaties that set a framework for those fleeing persecution to seek asylum at another country’s borders. The Trump administration, however, plans to push for “commonsense and necessary reforms” emphasizing that every nation has a right to control its borders, there is no right to receive asylum in a country of choice, asylum is meant to be temporary, sovereign states determine when return is possible, and that every country is obligated to accept return of its citizens, the spokesperson said.
European countries that have taken in millions of refugees, many from Muslim-majority nations, have been grappling with social turmoil and violence linked to migrants. Germany alone — with a population of 83 million — had 3 million refugees as of mid-2024, according to the UN.
The push aligns with President Donald Trump’s broader push to tighten asylum standards and “realign” U.S. policy.
“Cities and small towns alike, from Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and Springfield, Ohio, to Whitewater, Wisconsin, have seen significant influxes of migrants,” Trump wrote in his Jan. 20 executive order temporarily suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which is currently being challenged in court.
“The United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees,” the order continued.
The administration is also expected to set its refugee admission ceiling for fiscal year 2026 this month. More than 100,000 refugees were admitted into the country under former President Joe Biden in fiscal year 2024 — the highest figure since 1994 — according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Meanwhile, Trump has highlighted the violence and discrimination faced by Afrikaners, the minority group of predominantly Dutch descent in South Africa, whose harrowing testimonies the Daily Caller has documented. In May, the president signed an executive order promoting the resettlement of Afrikaners, and several groups have already arrived in the U.S.
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The man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk reportedly lives with a transgender-identifying “partner,” according to Fox News reporter Brooke Singman.
Authorities have arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, accusing him of gunning down Kirk during a TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, during which the late activist was debating attendees on a variety of topics, including transgenderism. Authorities say that communications between Robinson and the biological male who identified as a transgender female confirm Robinson as the person responsible for the assassination of Kirk, Singman posted on X Saturday.
Kirk had engaged in a debate about transgender mass shooters with Hudson Kozak shortly before being assassinated. The subject became a hot-button issue following the Aug. 27 shooting during an all-school mass held at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that left two children dead.
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Authorities had recovered a rifle containing ammunition that was reportedly marked with left-wing messaging, from a wooded area near the site of Kirk’s fatal shooting. The phrases included “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this you are gay LMAO,” according to Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
Kirk founded TPUSA, an organization for conservative college and high school students, in June 2012, according to the group’s website. He also hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show,” a podcast that later became a radio show on the Salem Radio Network, according to his biography on TPUSA’s site.
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