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The speculation about the things New York Mayor Eric Adams will do continues to grow after his meeting with border czar Tom Homan on Thursday afternoon. The headline was that Adams promised to reopen the ICE office at Riker’s Island, which has produced a series of equally dramatic subplots in the migrant crisis. Where do New York City’s other civic leaders stand in relation to what they want to see Adams and Homan do? New York City Councilman Robert Holden (D-30) was part of a group of council members who met with Homan on Thursday about half an hour before Mayor Adams. Holden appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss what was said in the meeting and what they hope will happen next.
“We laid out what we felt the mayor could do,” Holden told host Larry Mendte. “There’s a lot of things he could have done and he hasn’t done it in the years that he has been mayor, you know, like executive orders to protect public safety. He could actually suspend certain laws- sanctuary city laws. We suggested many times; now he’s starting to come around, but I wonder why he’s coming around… thank God for Donald Trump. When he came in he closed the border, [and] we got Tom Homan back as the border czar.”
Holden did stress one thing on his wish list for Homan to do: “We met with him for half an hour. We laid out what we felt. The number one thing on our list was reopen the ICE office at Riker’s because that’s ground zero for criminals, especially illegal alien criminals that go through the system and it’s a revolving door. So we mentioned that we need the ICE office back. And if the city won’t let you back on the property, you know, if they’re going to challenge this in court, I said have a trailer outside the gates, you know. I don't care, as long as you communicate with the NYPD.”
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