On immigration:

He suggested that he planned to work with Tom Homan, who Trump recently nominated to become his new border czar.

“Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country, I want to sit down and hear the plan on how we’re going to address them,” Adams said. “Those are the people I am talking about, and I would love to sit down with the border czar to hear his thoughts on how we’re going to address those who are harming our citizens.”

A reporter asked about Adams’ stance on Trump’s plan to carry out mass deportations after taking office. The mayor brought up how previous Democratic presidents handled illegal immigration.

“I want you to all go back and Google Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about those who commit crimes in our city and what they said in our country,” Adams responded. “They said, ‘Those who commit crimes need to get out right away.’ That was their position.”

Adams already has been the object of lawfare from the left (I submit that the charges would never have been brought had Adams been better at toeing the party line on illegal aliens), so I think that Adams feels he has nothing to lose by telling some hard truths. Plus, although the population of NYC voted strongly for Harris a month ago, it wasn’t quite as strongly as they did for Biden in 2020.

And Adams has never had any love for DA Alvin Bragg. For example, here’s an article from February of 2022:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg were elected to their respective positions in November after running on radically different messages about policing.

Adams, the former NYPD captain, argued police officers should resume enforcing quality of life crimes such as graffiti and pushed a tough-on-crime message that helped him connect with voters in the outer boroughs. In Manhattan, home to progressive elites, Bragg vowed to pull back on prosecutions — even reducing some felony charges, including commercial robberies. …

Bragg, pressured by Adams in public and private, has now walked back some of his most controversial campaign plans.

So it may come as no surprise that Adams has expressed support for Daniel Penny, the man being tried in NY for murder for subduing a man threatening the passengers on a subway train with death, a man who died either from the effects of being held down by Penny and others or by the drugs he’d ingested:

“We’re now on the subway where we’re hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people,” Adams said on the Nov. 30 episode of “The Rob Astorino Show.” “You have someone [Penny] on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city.”

“Those passengers were afraid,” the mayor added.

More:

“Based on all the facts that’s laid out, a jury of his peers will make the right decision. I don’t want to prejudge that,” Adams said of whether Penny should be found guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

“That could have easily been a case where you saw three innocent people murdered on our street two weeks ago,” he added, referring to a recent deadly stabbing spree in Manhattan on Nov 18.

“We have to recognize we have a mental health crisis, and we’re not doing enough to solve it.”

Actually, people like Bragg – and Biden and Harris, with their border policy – have been adding to it. And Adams knows that.