New York City Mayor Eric Adams is reportedly in talks with federal immigration officials about limiting the city's "sanctuary" policies to help stem an ongoing surge of asylum seekers.
Ken Genalo, the city's regional field director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Services, has been meeting with the Adams administration to discuss the city's strict rules preventing local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration crackdowns, according to the New York Post, which says the two sides are "making progress" in the closed-door negotiations.
"I’ve been working with the mayor’s office, I have had dialogue with them," Genalo told the newspaper. "I give them kudos — the prior administration under Mr. de Blasio … there was no dialogue at all."
Genalo told the Post that he was pushing for the city to amend its sanctuary policy, allowing local law enforcement to honor more ICE detainer requests. He said that would give ICE deportation officers more time to apprehend individuals held by local authorities instead of waiting until they are released into the communities to arrest them.
