Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday declined to say whether his administration would participate in mass deportations promised by Republican President-elect Donald Trump on the heels of his victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, despite pledging to uphold the city’s sanctuary laws.
Hizzoner and senior administration officials, during a Nov. 6 news conference following the Nov. 5. general election, sidestepped reporters’ repeated questions about whether and how they would stop the incoming president from rounding up migrants in the five boroughs and deporting them.
