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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. Backers of those policies at the time included Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who argued that from a crimefighting perspective, it was important to make immigrants less fearful of police.While Adams lamented the “drastic shifts” in the policy, he did not explicitly say which aspects of the law he would seek to rescind. But his spokesperson, Charles Lutvak, said the mayor was specifically opposed to a pair of laws implemented in 2014 and 2017 under his predecessor, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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