Adams says he’ll work with Trump on migrant crisis — while insisting NYC will remain sanctuary city

Mayor Eric Adams connected Wednesday pledged to activity pinch President-elect Donald Trump connected nan migrant situation — arsenic officials insisted that nan Big Apple will stay a sanctuary city.

A somber, if at-times combative, Adams held a post-election news convention successful City Hall successful which he mostly dodged questions astir Trump’s committedness to behaviour mass deportations of forbidden immigrants.

Instead, nan politician and metropolis officials sought to reassure New Yorkers concerned astir what Trump’s gobsmacking 2024 statesmanlike triumph would mean for nan Big Apple, particularly for its migrant communities and thousands of migrants who’ve flowed into nan 5 boroughs.

“New York City will ever stay a metropolis of immigrants and nan beacon of liberty astir nan globe,” Adams said.

“We will activity pinch nan caller management and Congress to create a realistic and compassionate nationalist strategy for our migration system.”

But arsenic Adams extended an oliva branch to Trump, his migrant affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro reaffirmed that Gotham’s sanctuary metropolis laws — which limits practice betwixt section officials and nan feds connected migration — stay successful place.

“We will proceed to beryllium a sanctuary metropolis and we will proceed to protect our migrant communities,” Castro said.

Castro, for illustration Adams, sidestepped questions astir really nan metropolis will woody pinch a early Trump management pushing for stricter migration laws and wide deportations.

He alternatively said nan astir harm for migrant communities astatine nan infinitesimal is simply a “sense of worry and panic” and misinformation spreading online.

“I want to reassure group they do not request to self-deport, they do not request to hide, spell successful nan shadows,” he said. “They tin proceed to usage metropolis services, particularly emergency services for illustration nan constabulary section aliases hospitals.”

Adams noted he opposed portion of nan city’s sanctuary policies changed nether erstwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio that bars constabulary from collaborating pinch some, but not all, detainer requests from nan national Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

“I don’t support that, I’ve said that complete and complete again,” he said.

“But nan rule of nan onshore successful this metropolis is that sanctuary metropolis law, and we’re going to abide by that.”

The politician besides expressed dream that Trump’s incoming management would supply financial assistance for nan city’s hefty costs of dealing pinch nan migrant crisis.

“We should not beryllium picking up nan tab for migrants and asylum seekers, this is simply a national problem,” he said.