CV NEWS FEED // Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the administration of President Donald Trump after the monthly number of migrants entering New York City was reported to be ten times lower than it was during the Biden administration.
Adams said at a press conference early this week that the Trump administration is helping him “with the agenda that I stated the previous administration should have been helping me with, and I thank them for helping me with it,” FOX News reported.
FOX noted that, per Adams, “the number of migrants arriving in the city has dramatically dropped from 4,000 to just 350 a month.”
He credited the decline in migrants entering the city to a “combination” of shifting city policies and federal immigration actions before and after Trump took office.
Adams said he is “in alignment with whatever we have to do legally to keep our city safe.” He called the situation surrounding New York City’s large illegal migrant population “probably the largest humanitarian crisis the city has ever experienced.”
“We need to secure our border,” Adams said. “There’s nothing humane about having individuals into the country with no place to go, no sponsors here, no ability to take care of themselves. And pushing the cost of it onto cities is just wrong.”
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Earlier this month, Adams and White House Border Czar Tom Homan met at New York City’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters to discuss a joint plan to deport criminal illegal migrants, CatholicVote previously reported.
The following day, Adams and Homan appeared together on FOX & Friends.
During the interview, Adams told FOX host Steve Doocy that he and Homan “were able to get in the room and really articulate … what are some of the things that we need to legislatively address that is preventing us from doing what we want to do. And that is getting dangerous people off our streets.”
In early December, Adams expressed his willingness to work with the then-incoming Trump administration on the issue of border security. He then challenged Democrats who opposed his desire to find a bipartisan solution to “cancel” him.
He also called on his intraparty critics to “go back and Google Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about” criminal illegal migrants. “They said those who commit crimes need to get out right away. … So, this is not a new position.”
“I’m going to protect the people of this city,” he added at the time. “And if you come into this country and this city and you think you’re going to harm innocent New Yorkers and innocent migrants and asylum seekers, this is not the mayor you want to be a city under.”
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CatholicVote previously reported that Adams’ “approval ratings show that he is deeply unpopular among his city’s residents, with one recent poll finding that he had an even lower approval rating in the Democratic stronghold than” Trump.
“Last September, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Adams on five corruption charges,” CatholicVote added. “The mayor has maintained his innocence and vowed to seek another term in office.”
At the moment, Adams is widely regarded as a longshot to win a second term in this year’s election. New York City will hold primary elections June 24th and general elections in November.
As of Thursday evening, the leading prediction website Polymarket forecasted the mayor’s chance of winning the Democratic primary – tantamount to election in the deep-blue city – at only 7%.
Meanwhile, controversial former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who at the time had yet to declare his candidacy, had a 74% chance of securing the 2025 Democratic mayoral nomination per Polymarket.
Cuomo is widely expected to run. He resigned the governorship in disgrace in 2021 after multiple scandals. CatholicVote had noted that shortly before his resignation, Cuomo “admitted to his administration concealing records of thousands of COVID deaths in nursing homes.”
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Late Thursday, Adams’ reelection bid was dealt a major blow when his longtime ally former Kings County Democratic Committee Frank Seddio announced that he would back a hypothetical Cuomo candidacy. Seddio cited the likelihood that Adams will lose in his decision.
“I love Eric,” the former party boss told The New York Post. “I supported him for all his races — for state senate, borough president and mayor. I have been friends with Eric all these years. But looking at the circumstances, I don’t see a path where Eric could win.”
Although his political career was left for dead just four years ago, many observers consider Cuomo to be on the verge of a remarkable political comeback.
Some Democrats have even gone as far as to float Cuomo as a potential candidate for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination.
Jamal Simmons, the former communications director for failed 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, recently said that if “Andrew Cuomo becomes mayor of New York, he could very well be Trump’s chief antagonist starting in 2026, which could give Democrats a voice to rally around, however imperfect a messenger he may be.”
Former New York state Democratic Party executive director Basil Smikle stated: “I think one of Andrew’s strongest qualities is that people feel like he’s fighting for them.”