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New York Dem Tells Adams It’s Time To Turn ‘Tough Talk’ On Immigration Into Action

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
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.”
Business
Will Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs End In Disaster Or Prosperity?

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By J.D. Foster
“Liberation Day” has come. So what does it mean? Beats the hell out of me.
What we know is that President Trump’s avalanche of tariffs was to hit a peak on April 2; not end, mind you; not necessarily “the” peak, as more could be on the way; but a peak.
No Trump policy more completely breaks with America’s past than his “beautiful” tariffs on just about everything coming into the United States from just about anywhere.
Will this new policy liberate American manufacturing from foreign shackles? Will it usher in a new era of prosperity, keeping in mind the United States had for many years the consistently best-performing economy in the industrialized world, even overcoming the many inane obstacles erected by the Biden-Harris Administration?
Or will it leave the United States isolated, friendless, and weakened?
The correct answer at this point is no one knows, not even the bloviating talking heads on TV confidently predicting demise or Shangri-la.
Think of it this way. Suppose you’re a restaurant chef and a woman hands you a new recipe. Her father turns 75 soon and they want to have a party at the restaurant. The recipe is for the father’s favorite dish, one her mother made for years.
The recipe looks old, with odd ingredients and processes you’ve not seen before. Now judge it as a chef.
You can’t. Even as you start chopping and dicing, mixing ingredients as instructed, you’re not too sure how this is going to turn out. You have to wait until the dish is on the plate and taste it.
That’s the case with Trump’s tariffs. How will this all turn out? It’s too soon to tell.
The stock market sure doesn’t like it, but why should it? The investor class doesn’t understand this any better than you do. What they do understand is this new policy has upended assumptions and created enormous new uncertainties. We know that dish as those ingredients are always good for a big pullback.
Much of the confusion arises because we don’t know the underlying policy and likely this uncertainty is intentional. Trump likes keeping his counterparts, in this case our trading partners, guessing. If it means Americans are confused for a bit, Trump’s cool with that. Breaking eggs to make an omelette. It will pass and America will be great again afterward. Bon appetite.
If the core policy is to erect massive and mostly permanent tariff walls behind which American firms can hide, then we know how this will turn out: America, meet the dustbin of history.
If the core policy is to force our trading partners to deal with America fairly by reducing their trade barriers after which Trump will remove his tariffs, then this could turn out very well. Tariffs (and non-tariff barriers) in the U.S. and those of our trading partners would fall, reinvigorating the free trade that has energized prosperity for decades.
Which is it? Walls and doom or freedom and prosperity? Again, too early to tell.
Whatever else Trump does in his second term, these tariffs will define his presidency, akin in consequence to Ronald Reagan’s pro-growth tax cuts and Joe Biden’s inflation.
Trump in his second term clearly lives by the saying, “go bold or go home.” He’s got “bold” down pat. We will see over the next year or so whether he and the Republicans go home. Has he liberated Democrats from any fear of Republicans in the mid-terms or in 2028, or he’s liberated America from any fear of Democratic socialism and wokism returning in our lifetimes. The chips are all-in. Soon we will see the cards. Uncertainty, indeed.
JD Foster is the former chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget and former chief economist and senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He now resides in relative freedom in the hills of Idaho.
Business
‘Time To Make The Patient Better’: JD Vance Says ‘Big Transition’ Coming To American Economic Policy

JD Vance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” discussing tariff results
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Hailey Gomez
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Newsmax that he believes Americans will “reap the benefits” of the economy as the Trump administration makes a “big transition” on tariffs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,679.39 points on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs against nations charging imports from the U.S. On “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Schmitt asked Vance about the stock market hit, asking how the White House felt about the “Liberation Day” move.
“We’re feeling good. Look, I frankly thought in some ways it could be worse in the markets, because this is a big transition. You saw what the President said earlier today. It’s like a patient who was very sick,” Vance said. “We did the operation, and now it’s time to make the patient better. That’s exactly what we’re doing. We have to remember that for 40 years, we’ve been doing this for 40 years.”
“American economic policy has rewarded people who ship jobs overseas. It’s taxed our workers. It’s made our supply chains more brittle, and it’s made our country less prosperous, less free and less secure,” Vance added.
Vance recalled that one of his children had been sick and needed antibiotics that were not made in the United States. The Vice President called it a “ridiculous thing” that some medicines invented in the country are no longer manufactured domestically.
“That’s fundamentally what this is about. The national security of manufacturing and making the things that we need, from steel to pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and so forth, but also the good jobs that come along when you have economic policies that reward investing in America, rather than investing in foreign countries,” Vance said.
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With a baseline 10% tariff placed on an estimated 60 countries, higher tariffs were applied to nations like China and Israel. For example, China, which has a 67% tariff on U.S. goods, will now face a 34% tariff from the U.S., while Israel, which has a 33% tariff, will face a 17% U.S. tariff.
“One bad day in the stock market, compared to what President Trump said earlier today, and I think he’s right about this. We’re going to have a booming stock market for a long time because we’re reinvesting in the United States of America. More importantly than that, of course, the people in Wall Street have done well,” Vance said.
“We want them to do well. But we care the most about American workers and about American small businesses, and they’re the ones who are really going to benefit from these policies,” Vance said.
The number of factories in the U.S., Vance said, has declined, adding that “millions of workers” have lost their jobs.
“My town [Middletown, Ohio], where you had 10,000 great American steel workers, and my town was one of the lucky ones, now probably has 1,500 steel workers in that factory because you had economic policies that rewarded shipping our jobs to China instead of investing in American workers,” Vance said. “President Trump ran on changing it. He promised he would change it, and now he has. I think Americans are going to reap the benefits.”
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