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The New York City Council has slapped Mayor Eric Adams and Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a lawsuit in an attempt to block ICE from reopening an office on Riker’s Island. The council filed the 29-page document on Tuesday, contending that Adams had deputy mayor Randy Mastro sign the executive order, which they contend he can’t do. Critics of the council, however, say they are only making the city more dangerous by not letting ICE deal with illegal migrants with criminal records in the prisons rather than on the streets. Vickie Paladino (R-19) is one of the handful of City Councilmembers who disapproves of the measure. She appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to rail against the suit and alleges it was filed to target one person in particular.
“It is pathetic,” Paladino told host Larry Mendte of the council’s audacity to sue ICE. “Every time you hear them talk about public safety, and you hear them stand on how they are going to war with our President and the Trump administration, and to protect the rights and safety of all New Yorkers against the attacks of Donald J. Trump- come on, give me a break, okay! We’ve got real issues here with them doing this. I tell you, I was surprised. Just when you think they can’t surprise you anymore, they do.”
Paladino explained why she stands for letting ICE do their job rather than back the lawsuit: “This is all about actually breaking the sanctuary city policy by deporting and getting rid of the most dangerous and the most vile of our criminals, and yet they don’t want to do that? Wrap your head around it, everybody- try to wrap your head around it. It’s insanity.”
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