Mayor Eric Adams said the Democratic Party has abandoned him – and everyday New Yorkers.
“People often say, ‘Well, you know, you don’t sound like a Democrat and you seem to have left the party,’” Adams told host Tucker Carlson during an interview due to air Tuesday night. “No. The party left me and left working-class people.”
Adams added that he believes the Biden administration punished him for being vocal about the migrant crisis plaguing the Big Apple – claiming the White House response to his gripes about being a sanctuary city was: “be a good Democrat, Eric.”
According to a preview of the interview, the mayor also said New York did not welcome the flood of migrants into the five boroughs, noting that, “We have Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to the city creating crimes.”
Adams, who has cooled on his backing of New York’s sanctuary city status in recent months, told Carlson he’s also at a loss on how to deal with the crisis.
The mayor has stepped up calls for the sanctuary restrictions to be loosened so migrants suspected of serious crimes can be turned over to federal immigration agents — standard practice before the migrant-friendly policies were implemented under ex-mayors Ed Koch and Michael Bloomberg.
Under sanctuary city laws, local authorities are prohibited from holding misbehaving migrants until Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents show up to begin deportation proceedings.
On Saturday, Adams said he would be unable to help President Donald Trump carry out his promised mass deportation of illegal immigrants because of the city’s status.
“The law is the law,” he said over the weekend. “I answered that over and over again. I’m not going to keep doing the same question over and over again about the cooperation of city agencies.”
Trump has said he would consider pardoning Adams in the federal corruption case against the mayor — and extended an inauguration invitation to Hizzoner, which Adams happily accepted.
Adams has been openly courting Trump to issue a pardon in the federal corruption case against the mayor — and was invited to attend the president’s inauguration on Monday.
However, he faces a battle to win re-election and is still handcuffed on dealing with the migrant crisis, blaming the Big Apple lawmakers who control the status for not bending.
“Damn it,” he complained to Carlson in the upcoming interview. “I’m at the end of the line here.”
The interview is slated to air on Carlson’s network at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the city defended the dem gov’s decision to sit down with the conservative commentator.
“Mayor Adams does not believe we should be living in silos and speaking into echo chambers,” Kayla Mamelak said in a statement. “At a time where our country is so divided, the mayor believes we must break out of our comfort zones and speak with everyone – even those we may not always agree with.”
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