2020s Mayor's Press Releases: on Immigration
Eric Adams:
Allow lawful non-citizens right to vote in city elections
We will empower legal immigrants with municipal voting rights. There are more than 3 million immigrants in New York City. The vast majority of these New Yorkers cannot vote in local elections even though many are legal tax-paying residents.
By allowing lawfully permanent residents and other non-citizens authorized to work in the United States the right to vote, we will enfranchise nearly 1 million New Yorkers who deserve a say in how their city is run--and who runs it.
Source: 2021 NYC Mayoral campaign website EricAdams2021.com
Jul 7, 2021
Curtis Sliwa:
Cuomo should apologize for calling ICE agents "thugs"
Sliwa called out Andrew Cuomo saying the former Democratic governor owes federal immigration officials a stiff apology. Cuomo needs to step up for his soft-on-illegal immigration legacy and for once even ripping ICE agents as "thugs,"
Sliwa wrote in a scathing op-ed piece."For Andrew Cuomo, it's time for him to go on an apology tour," Sliwa, the 2021 Republican candidate who lost to Mayor Eric Adams, wrote in The New York Sun.
Source: New York Post on 2025 NYC Mayoral race
Jul 19, 2025
Andrew Cuomo:
How immigrants are let in makes all the difference
[On southern border]: "I get the theory of the extreme Left: 'We're a land of immigrants; let everyone come in; we all came as immigrants.' I get it. But how you do it makes all the difference in the world. To just open the borders with no plan, you
don't know where they go, you don't know who's going to pay for them, they wind up in cities all across the country. New York has a couple of hundred thousand in hotels, costing NYC a fortune, no jobs, no training, no help assimilating into society."
Source: FOX News on 2025 NYC Mayoral race
Jun 24, 2024
Eric Adams:
Allow ICE agents access to people arrested not yet convicted
This Valentine's Day, a new political power couple said their vows on Fox & Friends: Donald Trump's "border czar", Tom Homan, and the New York City mayor, Eric Adams. 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 by letting federal immigration agents back onto Rikers Island, the city's jail complex that largely holds people who have been charged but not yet convicted of crimes.
Source: The Guardian on 2025 NYC Mayoral race
Feb 21, 2025
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