The mayor of America\u2019s largest city is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald Trump<\/p>\n
This Valentine\u2019s Day, a new political power couple said their vows on the plush white couches of Fox & Friends in midtown Manhattan: Donald Trump\u2019s border tsar, Tom Homan<\/a>, and the New York City mayor, Eric Adams.<\/p>\n The pair appeared on the conservative TV show to discuss an agreement they had reached the day before. Their deal reversed longstanding New York City policy<\/a> by letting federal immigration agents back onto Rikers Island, the city\u2019s jail complex that largely holds people who have been charged but not yet convicted of crimes. The surprise agreement came as the newly installed leaders of Trump\u2019s Department of Justice were making an extraordinary push to dismiss criminal corruption charges that the agency had been pursuing against Adams.<\/p>\n Weeks after the election, the mayor, who had once declared that the city would \u2018ALWAYS stand up to\u2019 Trump and that immigrants fleeing oppression should remember they were \u2018ALWAYS welcome here\u2019, sounded like a different man<\/em><\/p>\n Now they have a compromised mayor of the largest city in the country<\/em> Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mayor of America\u2019s largest city is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald Trump This Valentine\u2019s Day, a new political power couple said their vows on the plush white couches of Fox & Friends in midtown Manhattan: Donald Trump\u2019s border tsar, Tom Homan, and the New York City mayor, Eric … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Melissa Mark-Viverito<\/p>\n