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Eric Adams: “The law allows us to collaborate for criminal enforcement.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Podcast with Mayor Eric Adams on Migrant Crisis, Public Safety, and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 57:26

Yeah. Our city is not allowed by law to collaborate with ICE for any civil enforcement. We can't do it. The law says that, you know, but The law allows us to collaborate for criminal enforcement. Got it. If somebody's committing a crime, we could collaborate them. We have joint task forces with FBI, Homeland Security, all these entities that we collaborate with all the time, to go after dangerous people, terrorists and other dangerous people. (57:26–57:31)

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