NYC Democrat urges party to end 'dangerous' sanctuary policies, says officials could face criminal charges

A New York City Democrat is urging officials to repeal "sanctuary" policies that helium believes interruption national instrumentality and enactment citizens successful harm's way.

NYC Council Member Robert Holden told "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade connected Monday that metropolis and authorities officials are breaking the instrumentality by protecting amerciable immigrants who whitethorn beryllium engaged successful transgression activity.

"We're similar shielding [illegal immigrants]. The governors, the Democratic governors and the mayors of these sanctuary cities are shielding criminals and terrorists," helium said.

Holden insisted that national and authorities governments indispensable cooperate to ace down connected amerciable migration and forestall aboriginal panic plots—referencing a breakdown successful connection successful the aboriginal 2000s that helium believes facilitated the 9/11 attacks.

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Democratic NYC Council Member Robert Holden is pushing backmost against sanctuary metropolis policies and has floated the thought of charging officials if they bash not comply with national law.  (Fox News/Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

"We person terrorists that person gotten crossed the borders. We cognize it, and we don't cognize wherever they are, and of course, immoderate of them are successful New York City, and that's very, precise dangerous," Holden said.

Holden noted that New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has expressed frustrations astir the migrant crisis, tin petition New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and telephone connected the metropolis assembly to amend sanctuary metropolis laws.

He besides called connected President-elect Donald Trump to get progressive and endanger Democrats with imaginable jailhouse clip if they interruption statutes against harboring transgression non-citizens.

"[President Trump] really could accidental to the politician and to the mayor, cooperate with us, oregon we're going to complaint you with felonies," Holden said.

The New York Times reported that Manuel Castro, New York's commissioner of migrant affairs, has vowed not to travel "the instructions of the national authorities successful cases of wide deportations."

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Migrants enactment up extracurricular a migrant re-ticketing halfway astatine St. Brigid School connected E. 7th St. Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, successful Manhattan, New York City. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Castro's connection reflects a inclination by authorities and section officials saying they would cull Trump's migration policies. Trump campaigned, successful part, connected enforcing stringent migration laws and deporting amerciable immigrants.

Trump's committedness to closing the borderline was cemented by his prime for "border czar," Tom Homan, who served arsenic the acting caput of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the archetypal Trump administration.

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"If you don't privation to enactment with us, past get the hellhole retired each the way. We're going to bash it,' Homan precocious said.

As a sanctuary city, New York spent $3.7 billion connected housing, food, and different costs successful the 2024 fiscal twelvemonth alone.

Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.