Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams, and Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani. All three are operating for mayor this 12 months.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Mayor Eric Adams stated on Tuesday that he doesn’t anticipate President Trump calling within the Nationwide Guard and navy to quell protests in New York Metropolis over his immigration crackdown, as he did in Los Angeles over the previous a number of days.
In distinction, main Democratic major contenders former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani outlined on June 10 precisely how they’d counter Trump’s sending within the troops to stymie protests within the 5 boroughs.
The differing stances are available in response to Trump sending 4,000 Nationwide Guard troops and 700 Marines to LA to rein in 4 days of protests over his immigration authorities considerably ramping up their actions to detain undocumented immigrants over the protestations of California elected officers. The largely peaceable protests have at occasions erupted into violent clashes, with protesters burning automobiles and briefly shutting down LA’s 101 freeway, and police utilizing tear fuel and flash bang grenades to manage the crowds.
Hizzoner, throughout his weekly press briefing, advised reporters that he doesn’t “foresee” the protests escalating to the purpose the place military-level intervention could be obligatory. That’s due, he stated, to native regulation enforcement within the Huge Apple having the capability to deal with such protests.
Mayor Eric Adams talking at Metropolis Corridor on June 10, 2025.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
“New York is, unlike other cities, our infrastructure, our manpower, just whatever agencies that we have, you see that it is the largest in the country, from FDNY to the NYPD,” Adams stated. “We know what we have to do to keep the city safe. And if there’s ever a need to go beyond the manpower that we have, there’s other ways you do it before you have to come with a look of a military operation.”
Whereas the mayor insists that his administration follows town’s sanctuary legal guidelines by not collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on civil issues, he has repeatedly stated they’re working collectively on felony investigations involving undocumented immigrants.
He has additionally shied away from criticizing Trump’s immigration crackdown even because it has ramped up over the previous couple of weeks, with ICE intercepting and arresting migrants at obligatory hearings inside immigration courts.
Adams has confronted accusations that his willingness to work with Trump on immigration enforcement stems from the Justice Division shifting to drop his federal corruption case — a movement formally granted by a federal choose in early April.
Cuomo and Mamdani: Trump’s actions ‘authoritarian’
Nonetheless, Cuomo, the frontrunner within the June 24 Democratic major, and Mamdani, who’s polling in an more and more nearer second place, respectively forged Trump sending troops to tamp down the protests in LA as “unconstitutional” and “authoritarianism.” The 2 main candidates have clashed over who could be more practical at countering Trump’s aggressive insurance policies and actions towards town.
Cuomo, in a Tuesday assertion, alleged that Trump is manufacturing chaos in LA to create a pretext for additional escalating his mass deportation push accross the nation.
“Trump wants Americans to believe that Democratic cities are home to violent illegal immigrants and out-of-control activists, and that therefore the unconstitutional and thuggish actions of ICE officials are somehow justified,” Cuomo stated.
The previous governor, who resigned in 2021 beneath a cloud of scandal, is trying a political comeback. He proposed a six-point plan to organize town for the same crackdown.
The plan contains working with protesters to find particular areas for peaceable demonstrations; asembling a crew of attorneys to defend these unlawfully targetted by ICE; guaranteeing the NYPD is “pre-deployed” when protests start; having Gov. Kathy Hochul maintain the Nationwide Guard on standby to get forward of Trump calling it into motion; directing neighborhood leaders to tell the general public of the protests’ goal; and deploying “legal monitors” to make sure the NYPD follows town’s sanctuary legal guidelines.
The Democratic socialist Meeting member stated he would additionally work to amass $10 billion by elevating taxes on the rich to “Trump-proof” town’s funds towards the president, utilizing the specter of federal funding cuts as leverage to bend town to his will.
Mamdani additionally took purpose at Adams for being open to collaborating with ICE.
“What we deserve is a mayor who will end this policy of collaboration between our police department and ICE,” he stated. “One who will ensure that the days of arresting a pastor peacefully observing the arrest of migrants at Federal Plaza will come to an end. One who will stand up unabashedly for sanctuary city policies.”
