NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for expanded cooperation between police and immigration authorities

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams called Tuesday for expanded cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities, attacking the current city policies limiting such communication as detrimental to public safety.

The comments marked the mayor’s sharpest rebuke to date of so-called sanctuary laws adopted by New York over the last decade, which were meant to protect the city’s immigrant population by limiting how local agencies can assist in federal detention and deportation efforts.

Citing his “fundamental disagreement” with those laws, Adams, a Democrat, said the city’s police department should be free to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when a person is suspected of a serious crime, such as robbery or gang activity.

“We should be communicating with ICE, and if ICE makes the determination of deporting, then they should,” Adams said.

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“The mere fact that we cannot share