A former deputy to Eric Adams has landed a new job working with President Trump’s immigration enforcement in the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
Kaz Daughtry, a key ally of the former mayor who skyrocketed through the ranks in the NYPD and was eventually tapped as deputy mayor of public safety, will soon serve as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement liaison to New York City, sources said.
While Daughtry’s full portfolio was not immediately clear, insiders said he will be a political appointee within Homeland Security based in Suffolk County and working with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Sources added that he will have no law enforcement responsibility.
Under Adams, Daughtry was formally a detective in the NYPD but was repeatedly given discretionary promotions, capping his time in the department as deputy commissioner of operations.
Adams taped him for the deputy mayor role in his final year in office.
Daughtry, along with his cop pal John Chell, had been repeatedly spotted cozying up to officials in the Trump administration — even joining the president at his New Jersey golf club and attending his inauguration.
Daughtry also played a key role in a documentary about the NYPD that was directed by Dr. Phil’s son, Jordan McGraw, which is currently on hold as the city seeks to kill the not-yet-released footage.
Adams had greenlit the show in 2025, around the same time his failed reelection campaign paid McGraw $500,000 through a shady LLC based in Texas, a top campaign official revealed to NBC.
Dr. Phil had been a recurring character in the Adams administration, interviewing the mayor and featuring Daughtry and Chell, the former chief of department, on his shows.
The TV personality, whose real name is Phil DeGraw and was previously a licensed psychologist, helped broker the sitdown between Adams and border czar Tom Homan at Gracie Mansion, which led to the infamous “Fox and Friends” interview where the Trump official threatened he’d be “up” the mayor’s “butt” if he didn’t help ICE.
That meeting led to Adams vowing to put immigration officials back on Rikers Island — a controversial move by the Adams administration that was shot down by a judge.
Daughtry was at the center of scouting office space for ICE at the troubled jail and played a key role in the nixed immigration raid on city-funded migrant hotels in Manhattan, an operation that was pushed by Trump officials.
Calls to Daughtry were not returned.
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