Back

2/ "The deal that aims to drop all criminal charges — as well as an ongoing federal probe uncovering even more graft during Adams’ three years in City Hall — also increases the odds that agents could enter an 8-year-old’s school and send his family back to Colombia, or worse"

3/ "Statistics suggest that 1000s of NYC’s estimated 915K pub school kids stayed home in days immed after ICE-led raid that surged agents into immigrant-laden Bronx neighborhood & was widely publicized, incl made-for-TV appearance by new Homeland Sec Sec Noem, who donned “POLICE” jacket to accompany agents. (The city Dept of Education said overall daily attendance plunged from 90% to the mid-80s after the raid, then rebounded but not fully — and then it stopped releasing numbers)"

4/ "If New York’s migrant kids and their parents were anxious at the dawn of Trump’s presidency, they should now be terrorized by the cowardly complicity of the mayor of their adopted hometown. Even before POTUS 47 took office, Adams — with those felony federal charges looming over his head — was signaling through memos and demands of his department heads that a longtime sanctuary city for immigrants was now willing to play ball with Trump’s deportation regime."

5/ "Soon, the details of the shameless quid pro quo at the center of the negotiations between Adams’ lawyers and Trump’s politicized prosecutors — which centered not on the legal merits of the mayor’s indictment, but his willingness to give immigration cops free rein over New York — weren’t even hidden, but laid bare in legal filings and a blistering resignation note from Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, Danielle Sassoon."

6/ "Let’s be clear: This sordid narrative exists because of the rank hypocrisy of arguably the most corrupt mayor in the long, unseemly history of the city that gave us rogues such as Boss Tweed and Jimmy Walker. Adams is an ex-police captain with the audacity to run as a “law-and-order” candidate even as he was already under criminal investigation at the time of his 2021 election."

7/ "The unholy & arguably unlawful quid pro quo w mayor is so outrageous that it sparked remarkable event dubbed the Thurs Afternoon Massacre, as eventually 7 fed prosecutors, beginning w Sassoon, resigned rather than aid in dropping charges against Adams as Bove demanded of them. That’s a huge development, & all Americans should hail the heroism of Sassoon & colleagues like lead prosecutor Hagan Scotten, who also quit on Fri, as sterling examples of what citizens must do to resist dictatorship"

8/ "But while this drama plays out among Ivy League-educated lawyers, I’m still worried that we won’t fight hard enough to defend the essential workers who fill potholes or clean hotel rooms and are trying to give their innocent 8-year-olds a better life — whom Adams, Trump and their willing henchmen see merely as collateral damage."

9/ "..Much of Adams' planned cooperation w Homan, ICE appears in direct conflict w NY estab sanctuary laws & can be blocked in courts. Mayor “didn’t realize that he didn’t have power to undo a lot of things that he was offering them.”
Let’s hope so bc willingness of increasingly compromised, anti-dem leaders to abuse human rts of immigs—some desperately fleeing crim gangs or poverty in native lands, others who’ve planted hardworking, tax-paying roots in US — isn’t just a New York City problem'"

10/ "Barring intervention, some immigrants who today walk freely, if nervously, on the sidewalks of New York might soon be joining Castillo in the notorious American lockup. Some poor dream-dashed refugee will soon be wearing the orange prison garb that should have been tailored for New York’s mayor, who instead will keep his designer threads while raising an after-hours champagne glass to toast the absurd joke of what passes for justice in America in the 21st century."

Plz read.

@SnowshadowII But you know Will right? I've been threading his stuff for years. We're pals. He's about the best columnist there is.

I subscribe to the Inquirer just for him. It's also one of the better papers.

@GottaLaff Excellent writer!!

@SnowshadowII He truly is. AND... a mensch. For realsies. A sweetheart.

@GottaLaff "a person of integrity and honour" yup.