NEW YORK– New York Mayor Eric Adams meets with new President Donald Trump “border czar” Tom Homan on Thursday afternoon.
They are expected to determine the fate of the Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelterwhich is on federal land. The mayor also wants to know whether the federal government plans to do so setting up deportation centers in New York.
The town hall meeting comes as Homan says largest mass deportation program in American history will start in Chicago just after Trump came to power.
“We’re starting here in Chicago, Illinois. “If the mayor of Chicago doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,” Homan told a crowd in Chicago earlier this week. “But if he stops us – if he knowingly harbors or hides an illegal alien – I will prosecute him.”
Adams says Marcia Kramer of CBS News New York he would like to improve cooperation with the FBI, but the city council is against this. He said he is having lawyers explore the possibility of issuing an executive order to bypass the council and even change the law laws of the shrine city.
“We are exploring ways I can use my executive authority to go after these dangerous, violent people,” the mayor said.
A protest is planned ahead of the meeting by a group of immigrants and organizations that say it “undermines public confidence that New York will continue to protect immigrants.” Homan and Adams will hold a press conference afterward.
Meanwhile, Trump is also in New York City, where he rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
