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Border czar Tom Homan will have a much-anticipated meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday afternoon. The obvious topic on the agenda will be what to do with the approximately 200,000 migrants who have arrived in New York within the last three years. Adams has hinted at a willingness to discuss the repeal of sanctuary status laws and to cooperate with Homan on the deportation of at least migrants with criminal records, something that representatives of other sanctuary cities across the country have been reluctant to do, at best. City Councilman Robert Holden (D-30th) is among the big names who’ve been invited to sit in on the meeting. He appeared on WOR’s Morning Show to discuss what he anticipates at the sit-down.
“I’m excited about the meeting,” Holden told host Larry Mendte. “Tom Homan is such a star with us because, obviously, with the migrant crisis and the open border, we now can kind of rectify this, hopefully, and really get to the bottom of these sanctuary city laws- which, by the way, Mayor Adams, and I told him over and over again, that he has the power to suspend sanctuary city laws. I don’t think he even knew that, seriously. I think public safety has been imperiled, not only in New York City, but in the United States with this migrant crisis.”
Holden didn’t shy away from taking credit for showing Mayor Adams the error of his ways on not repealing the Big Apple’s sanctuary city status. “We sent him the law, because he was arguing with us that he couldn’t do it for the longest time. So, we finally sent him the law, and then he went into radio silence, and all of a sudden, now he’s announcing stuff like this. It’s good to have some influence on the mayor, but this went on too long. He could have stepped in a year ago or longer.”
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