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Eric Adams: “The legal team, the corporation council that they just…”

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Mayor Eric Adams Discusses Border Security and Immigration Policies with CBS News New York

Published | Video Starts at 05:47

I think they're wrong. I have my teams looking at my power as executive orders. I'm going to sit. Is it possible you could do an executive order? We're looking at that. The legal team, the corporation council that they just approved, they're looking at, the office is looking at, do I have the power to do so? I have to protect the people of this city. That is my North Star. It always has been. And if you are committing crimes on migrants, on immigrants, undocumented, documented, it's all the same to me. (05:47–05:57)

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