Adams stops short of calling for deportation of migrants who allegedly hurt cop during shoplifting arrest: ‘This is my position’

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday stopped short of calling for the deportation of two migrants accused of injuring an NYPD officer who was trying to arrest them for shoplifting from an Upper East Side Target.

“If you are a repeat offender of a violent act in his city, after you serve your time, you need to leave this city. That is my position,” Adams said during his weekly press conference at City Hall when asked about the vicious April 2 attack.

The tepid response stood in stark contrast to the position Hizzoner took less than two months ago — when he called on overhauling the city’s controversial sanctuary laws for migrants accused of serious offenses.

Adams in February floated changing the current policy to allow local law enforcement to turn migrants over to federal immigration officials if they were “suspected” of a serious crime.

“I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who I believe subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable,” Adams fumed to reporters in City Hall on Feb. 27.

“They didn’t give due process to the person that they shot or punched or killed,” he added.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, no relation to the mayor, immediately shot down even taking up any such proposals.

Any changes to the city’s sanctuary laws — which date back to Mayor Ed Koch and were further solidified by Adams’ immediate predecessor Bill de Blasio — would have to go through the council.

On Tuesday, the mayor played down reports of criminal activity involving migrants, telling reporters that those bad actors only account for a small percentage of the total number of asylum seekers who have come through the city.

Since spring of 2022, nearly 190,000 migrants have come through the Big Apple as part of the crisis.

Adams also stressed that the Big Apple’s controversial sanctuary policies had no bearing on migrants or asylum seekers in the city’s care after being released into the county by federal border authorities.

“Sanctuary City is if you’re here, and you are undocumented, we are not allowed to turn you over to ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), we’re not allowed to deny you services,” he told reporters.

“Sanctuary city is not for migrants and asylum seekers, they are paroled into the country legally.”