{"id":89963,"date":"2025-07-25T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:12:31","slug":"doj-sues-mayor-eric-adams-and-new-york-city-officials-for-being-a-sanctuary-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89963\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ sues Mayor Eric Adams and New York City officials for being a \u2018sanctuary city\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams and top city officials, alleging that the city\u2019s so-called sanctuary policies reflect an \u201cintentional\u201d attempt to obstruct federal immigration law.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 37-page complaint filed in Brooklyn claims New York has \u201clong been at the vanguard of interfering with enforcing this country\u2019s immigration laws\u201d with decades-long policies to \u201cthwart federal immigration enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City has released thousands of criminals on the streets to commit violent crimes against law-abiding citizens due to sanctuary city policies,\u201d Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. \u201cIf New York City won\u2019t stand up for the safety of its citizens, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has filed similar lawsuits in Los Angeles, Chicago and other jurisdictions<\/a> it accuses of obstructing Trump\u2019s anti-immigration agenda with local policies designed to prevent unjust arrests, detentions and removals by limiting cooperation between local and federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Several city administrations over the past four decades have supported policies limiting how New York Police Department officers interact with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>, with exceptions for people suspected of terrorism or convicted of violent crimes.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department is suing Mayor Eric Adams and top New York City officials over what it claims are \u2018sanctuary\u2019 policies that \u2018obstruct\u2019 federal immigration law (Reuters)<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has filed litigation in Democratic-led jurisdictions across the country to override what it considers \u201cunconstitutional\u201d policies that \u201cobstruct\u201d the president\u2019s attempts to arrest and remove tens of thousands of people living within them.<\/p>\n

Following Trump\u2019s election, Adams has publicly aligned himself with elements of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration agenda <\/a>and has appeared to curry the president\u2019s favor in what critics have suggested is a quid pro quo arrangement to ensure a federal corruption case against him disappears.<\/a><\/p>\n

In February, then-acting deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams, with a memo that explicitly stated that the Justice Department made its decision without assessing the strength of the evidence against the mayor.<\/p>\n

Adams gave ICE permission to operate inside Rikers Island\u2019s jail complex <\/a>earlier this year, drawing lawsuits from city officials accusing Adams of crafting a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d with the president.<\/p>\n

That alleged partnership appeared to fray this week, as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other top Trump administration officials appeared in New York City to criticize the mayor after an off-duty customs officer was shot by an undocumented immigrant in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s office has denied that Thursday\u2019s lawsuit marks any kind of turning point between Adams and the president, noting that the mayor has joined more than a dozen legal challenges against the administration since Trump took office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe job of a mayor is to protect the safety of every single person in their city \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly what Mayor Adams has worked to do every day for nearly four years,\u201d the mayor\u2019s press secretary Kayla Mamelak said in a statement to The Independent.<\/p>\n

Mamelak said the mayor supports the \u201cessence\u201d of sanctuary measures supported by the City Council, \u201cbut he has also been clear they go too far when it comes to dealing with those violent criminals on our streets and has urged the Council to reexamine them to ensure we can effectively work with the federal government to make our city safer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit is under review of the city\u2019s law department.<\/p>\n

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Federal immigration agents have lined the hallways of a federal complex in Manhattan to arrest immigrants moments after their immigration court hearings (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bondi\u2019s lawsuit also follows a string of courthouse arrests inside a federal building in Manhattan<\/a>, where immigration advocates this week revealed footage from inside what appears to be a makeshift, clandestine detention center.<\/p>\n

\u201cPam Bondi may want to distract from reality, but the facts are clear: the evidence consistently shows that cities with sanctuary laws are safer than those without them,\u201d said New York City council spokesperson Rendy Desamours. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is among the defendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen residents feel comfortable reporting crime and cooperating with local law enforcement, we are all safer, something both Republican and Democratic mayors of New York City have recognized,\u201d Desamours said in a statement to The Independent. \u201cIt is the Trump administration indiscriminately targeting people at civil court hearings, detaining high schoolers, and separating families that make our city and nation less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, called the lawsuit “frivolous at best, and an attack on New York\u2019s ability to govern itself at worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York must reject Trump\u2019s continued assaults to its Constitutional right to pass local laws that serve our communities best,\u201d Awawdeh said. \u201cMayor Adams must fight back against this federal overreach and defend the well-being of all New Yorkers.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-89963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910982529140318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}