The speculation follows "border czar" Tom Homan’s promise to “flood the zone” – New York City – with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The threat followed last weekend’s shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent at Fort Washington Park in Upper Manhattan.

But it seems Adams has only delayed Trump’s wrath, rather than spare the city from it completely. The Trump administration sued the Adams administration Thursday over its sanctuary policies, POLITICO reported,

New York City is among Democratic-led sanctuary cities in the US that have pledged to withhold assistance to federal authorities seeking to deport illegal immigrants. The lawsuit comes despite Adams’s calls for changing the city’s sanctuary laws to allow local law enforcement to notify federal immigration agents when illegal immigrants are arrested for violent crimes.