Mayor Eric Adams, appearing alongside the border czar, Tom Homan, said he would work with the Trump administration on immigration as he faces calls to resign over his cooperation.
A top Justice Department official and former defense lawyer for President Donald Trump has seen six top prosecutors quit over Mayor Adams' case.
"If he [Adams] doesn't come through, I'll be back in NYC," Homan said in the interview Friday, highlighting the pressure Adams faces to cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Mayor Eric Adams vowed to reopen the shuttered ICE office at Rikers Island following a closed-door meeting with Trump border czar Thomas Homan. AP The hour-and-a-half meeting at Manhattan ICE offices was Adams’ second with Homan, and came after city ...
It led to Eric Adams’s becoming the first sitting ... Mr. Adams met with Mr. Trump’s choice for “border czar,” Thomas D. Homan. Mr. Adams had said publicly that migrants accused of crimes ...
As long as Eric Adams refuses to resign, New Yorkers must contemplate other options, including—but not limited to—intervention by the state’s governor.
The move was preceded by a wave of resignations of prosecutors, each refusing to sign the motion and some criticizing the Justice Department order to do so in scathing terms.
Another key prosecutor has resigned in the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office as the fallout continues over the Justice Department's insistence that the criminal case against New York City's mayor be dropped.
The criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams may be in jeopardy, but his political future now seems more imperiled amid heightened calls for his resignation or dismissal.
The decision to sue over the $80 million in seized funds comes as the New York City mayor has been accused of supporting the White House’s immigration agenda in exchange for legal leniency.