Mayor Eric Adams stood alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch in Queens on Tuesday afternoon and charged that much of the crime along Roosevelt Avenue has been orchestrated by “illegal migrants” whom the NYPD and the feds have rooted out.
Adams used the controversial term amidst ongoing ICE raids in New York and around the country that have left many outraged because of the random and forceful nature federal agents have taken people, including immigrants and citizens without criminal records into custody.
