NYC Mayor Reportedly In Talks With ICE On How To Roll Back City’s Sanctuary Laws

🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaders and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are reportedly meeting at the negotiating table on how to amend the city’s strict sanctuary laws.

Ken Genalo, the New York City regional field director for ICE, said his agency has been making progress with Adams’ office on how to work around sanctuary laws that bar local law enforcement from cooperating with his staff, according to a report from the New York Post. Adams has shown a public willingness to change the city’s anti-ICE laws in the wake of a massive influx of illegal immigrants since the beginning of the border crisis.

“I’ve been working with the mayor’s office, I have had dialogue with them,” Genalo said to The Post. “I give them kudos — the prior administration under Mr. de Blasio … there was no dialogue at all.”

“With Mayor Adams’ office, we’ve had numerous dialogues,” Genalo continued. “At least we’re back at the table and speaking with one another again.”

New York City, the most populous city in the country and a bastion of liberal politics, has long had sanctuary laws on the books.

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014 signed into law a bill that largely prohibits the New York Police Department from working with federal Immigration