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Mayor Adams deflects on reporters’ ICE questions amid surge in enforcement efforts across NYC

By Shea Vance

Posted on June 18, 2025

At a press conference Tuesday morning, Mayor Eric Adams again insisted that immigration enforcement in New York City is a federal matter, urging reporters and those with questions about Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics and policy to “speak to our federal partners” and his deputy mayors.

“The federal government’s in charge of immigration. That is their role, and I would encourage everyone again to speak to our federal partners. They should be briefing us,” Adams said Tuesday. “Our federal partners should be briefing us on what changes are happening on the federal level.”

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Mayor Adams deflects on reporters’ ICE questions amid surge in enforcement efforts across NYC

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