Mayor Eric Adams does about-face, sticks up for 20-year-old high school student rounded up by ICE — after wave of criticism

Source: New York Post

Mayor Eric Adams belatedly offered support Monday for a Big Apple high schooler rounded up in President Trump’s deportation blitz — reversing his original assertion that the Venezuelan migrant’’s arrest by ICE won’t discourage other migrants from seeking city services. The city’s top lawyer filed a legal brief backing Dylan Lopez Contreras, a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was detained in a Manhattan courthouse May 21 after attending a mandatory immigration hearing. Contreras’ arrest drew protests from hundreds of his fellow high school students last week, as well as a wave of criticism for Adams after he conspicuously declined to question the migrant’s detention.