NYC mayor warns protesters against sabotaging ICE raids, vows NYPD will protect federal agents

New York City Mayor Eric Adams warned anti-ICE protesters they volition not beryllium allowed to impede instrumentality enforcement successful the Big Apple, arsenic activists enactment to disrupt the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

The Democrat-turned-independent warned against impeding ICE operations successful America's astir populous metropolis arsenic helium made his re-election transportation to "Fox & Friends" viewers connected Monday.

"You're not going to impede national authorities from taking their actions, and that's conscionable what we were capable to accomplish," helium said.

"So if you were those who were sitting successful the roadway, blocking trucks, blocking pedestrians, oregon blocking parents from wanting to spell to the job…. it's not going to hap successful the city.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is moving for re-election this year.  (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

"We took the close actions passim this full initiative. I communicated with the politician and the medication to say, successful New York City, we person the manpower to grip this problem."

To showcase however the metropolis successfully mitigated wide protests implicit the weekend, Adams pointed to the deficiency of convulsive incidents successful the Big Apple during "No Kings Day" demonstrations, which were organized crossed the U.S. successful effect to the Trump administration's policies and actions.

He told the "Fox & Friends" hosts fewer arrests were made, and they were "disorderly conduct-type crimes." 

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Demonstrators clasp assorted signs including "The Power of the People" and "No Kings No Royalty" astatine a rally connected April 19, 2025.  (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe)

New York City has been the taxable of nationalist attraction successful caller years owed to a wide influx of amerciable immigrants, galore of whom were being housed successful hotels. 

During his tenure, Adams has wrestled with the problem. Now, helium confronts an upcoming mayoral predetermination arsenic an independent, insisting helium fixed galore messes near down by erstwhile Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a three-term authoritative who resigned from bureau successful 2021 amid aggregate scandals.

Cuomo is present aiming for governmental redemption arsenic helium works to propulsion disconnected a run comeback and go New York City's adjacent mayor.

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When asked if helium plans to "expose" what Democrats tried to bash to undermine him for agreeing to cooperate with the Trump administration's migration policies, helium said, "over and implicit again."

"It's astir sharing what happened, wherefore I fought for New Yorkers. I'll accidental it implicit and implicit again. They weren't coming for me. They were coming from the radical of the city, and I was successful the way, and present I'm going to beryllium capable to get that connection out."

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.