Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he opposed mass deportation plans by President-elect Donald Trump, but he is willing to work with his incoming administration on immigration. The comments came during a contentious news conference held as Trump has already named officials pledging to conduct immigration raids in New York and beyond.

Faced with a threat of stepped-up enforcement in New York by Donald Trump’s new border czar, top New York court officials are laying down the law and saying they will continue to shut their doors to federal immigration authorities looking to round up undocumented immigrants as they seek to launch mass deportation proceedings in the Empire State.

Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that while he hopes the incoming federal administration can “fix immigration,” he is not for the mass deportations President-elect Trump has promised throughout his campaign,

Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news.

Immigration lawyers are preparing for a second Trump presidency. The president-elect announced Tom Homan as his incoming border czar. Immigration attorney Allen Orr joins José Díaz-Balart to share his legal insight on the potential mass deportations.

Was Donald Trump serious about his most draconian plans for a second term? That question shadowed his whole campaign, as commentators questioned whether he’d really attempt to deport millions of immigrants or impose tariffs above 60 percent.

Given his rhetoric demonizing undocumented immigrants and his promise to engage in mass deportations when he retakes the White House in January, it’s kind of shocking that deportations actually dropped in the four years Donald Trump was president.