Mayor Eric Adams to meet with Trump’s border czar pick Tom Homan about NYC migrant crisis, including deporting ‘known offenders’: sources
Mayor Eric Adams and incoming White House “border czar” Tom Homan will meet Thursday — and Hizzoner will ask about President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport known migrant offenders and share his thoughts on the broken border policies of the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
The highly-anticipated meeting was set to take place at around 1 p.m. at City Hall, where the two were expected to discuss the migrant crisis in New York City as well as broader immigration failures at the federal level.
On the mayor’s agenda is picking the new czar’s brain on how his administration can help weed out the criminal element in the city’s migrant population, said a source familiar with Adams’ thinking.
“How can we work together to deport criminals, not regular undocumented people,” the source said. “The focus is on known offenders who need to be removed.”
The meeting was originally set for 10 a.m. but got pushed until 1 p.m. due to a schedule conflict for Homan, who has vowed that sanctuary cities, including the Big Apple, won’t stop him from deporting migrant criminals.
Homan said he would enact Trump’s mass deportation promise and threatened to withhold funding from sanctuary cities if they don’t assist the feds.
While Adams can’t unilaterally change the Big Apple’s sanctuary city status, which would require the support of the City Council, some in his administration believe he could chip away at some of the policies through executive orders.
Over the past few weeks, Adams has taken a tougher stance on the city’s sanctuary status, saying he’d be open to deporting migrants after they’ve been charged with crime, but before they’ve been convicted and have served their time.
“Cancel me, because I’m going to protect the people of this city,” he quipped.
Adams also hopes to share with Homan his experiences traveling to Central and South America and meeting with officials there to discuss migration. Also on his agenda is bringing up how the US could benefit from the decompression strategy he put out last year, according to sources.
The border crisis over the Biden administration has led to an influx of tens of thousands of asylum seekers in the Big Apple, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Despite a dwindling number over the last year, nearly 57,000 migrants are still in the city’s care.
Federal assistance with the migrants has been top of the agenda for Adams, whose polling has been dragged down to historic lows with New Yorkers unhappy with the influx, forcing the administration to make steep budget cuts.
