President Trump’s administration is taking New York City to court over its sanctuary laws in the wake of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent getting shot, allegedly by undocumented migrants with long rap sheets, earlier this week.
The gambit — an apparent effort to strike down the city’s sanctuary laws as unconstitutional — places Mayor Eric Adams in an awkward position, given his warm relationship with Trump and willingness to work with the president on his immigration crackdown. However, it’s not like City Hall and the White House have not already been engaged in legal battles, given that Adams’ administration filed one lawsuit against the Trump administration and is a party to five others.
