Vickie Paladino, New York City Council Member Interview

Mendte in the Morning talks to Vickie Paladino about the NYC Council’s lawsuit against Eric Adams over the return of ICE to Rikers Island.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get the Vicky Palladino New York City Council members.
She represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens, And I'm going
to start Vicky with the question I always seem to
be wondering, what is wrong with the city council. This
is real ridiculous. This is unbelievable that they're going up
against that, they're slapping Ice and the Adams administration with

(00:23):
a lawsuit over Ice returning to Rakers Island. Where do
they want they want the criminals back out on the street.
Is that what they want? They want them to be
freed and be back in the community.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, good morning, Larry, Good morning everybody. Yes, it's you. Actually,
just I'm cracking up because as I as you introduced me,
I'm laughing because it is that funny. I mean, it
is pathetic when every time you hear them talk about
public safety and you hear them stand on how they are,

(00:56):
you know, going at war with our with our president
and the Trump administration and to protect the rights and
safety of all New Yorkers against the attacks of Donald J. Trump.
Come on, give me a break. Okay, We've got real
real issues here with them doing this I tell you,
I was shy. I was surprised. Well, just when you

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think you they can't surprise you anymore, they do. So
now this is made very very clear. You know, since
Mayor Adams took on Randy Mastro as his first deputy Mayor.
Randy is to say brilliant is an understatement and needs
to be underscored several times with an exclamation point. They

(01:41):
will go to battle. They will lose the battle because
they've got every right to be there. Let's remember something
about our sanctuary city laws and how they all started.
You know, sanctuary I'm going to read a little bit.
Sanctuary city laws were originally laws to as an inform
to help the local cops of our crimes by encouraging

(02:05):
witnesses to come forward without being afraid of their immigration status.
Well that was you know. That was Then in twenty
sixteen when they redid the sanctuary city laws, it was
they expanded to remove ICE from our gail system. However,

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it remained legal for the mayor to authorize, under executive authority,
cooperation with ICE for the sake of law enforcement or
on national security. So that means that gang members, criminals, terrorists,
and legally eligible are legally eligible under our sanctuary city

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laws for the NYPD or Corrections to turn them over
for deportations. Okay, so now the mayor is used this authority,
you know, and to authorize ice to enter rikers, you know,
to pursue immigrations all our gangs. So this has been
a real joke and the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous

(03:15):
because you just can't this is this is just belooney
what she's doing. You cannot do this. And then she
has her whole crew behind her. You know, last week
before the stated meeting, you know, you had a lessis
and vialists, all these haters, and like you said, very
very very from the beginning, this is all about actually

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breaking the sanctuary city policy by deep porting and getting
rid of the dangerous and the most vile of our criminals.
And yet they don't want to do that. Wrap your
head around and everybody try to wrap your head around it. Insanity.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, let's be clear and exactly what they're saying, because
Tom Homan has been pushing for this all across the
country for a long long time. All he's saying is
we're going to go after these people anyway. We'd rather
do it, no fuss, no mess. You hand them over
to us already cuffed, will take them into custody. That way,
we don't have to have a shootout in the communities.

(04:19):
We're going to get them anyway. But now they're going
to be in the communities and we have to send
a massive amount of manpower to arrest them. So they're
going to get arrested no matter what. And so correct.
That's why it's insane, VICKI, That's why it makes no
sense at all.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
This could be like you said, cut and dry. They
get arrested, they're taken to Rikers home, and guys go
in and they remove them and they take them where
they need to go. I mean, simple, very very very simple.
Why do they want? But you see, the issue is
they feel like they are going to be knocking down

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doors of innocent people. Now that one guy that got
transferred last week to El Salvador, and it seems to
be tying up the news. Now one guy, one person
and an MS thirteen gang member, though he doesn't have
any tattoos. They're using him as the post a child. Okay,

(05:19):
he's the poster child for what Trump is doing wrong
and what Homan is doing as far as knocking down
and taking an innocent father away from his children. This
is not the way it's going everybody. Okay, these are lethal,
lethal people. These are people who sit human beings on

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fire and subways. These people have got to go. Holman's
got a handle on it. Let's keep it clean, let's
get them out. My council seems to think that this
is an invasion of our undocumented people here in the city.
That's not what's happening. Okay, if you are an undocumented personal,

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law abiding person, though you are here illegally, but you
are not committing at any crimes, they are not coming
after you. They are coming after the people that don't
make us feel safe yet. In her opening statement, she
says that this is once again that the City Council
is going to stand firm to protect the rights and

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safety of all New Yorkers against the Trump administration. Well,
you know what, Speaker Adams, you got.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It backwards and she can never be married, especially because
of that. Vicki Palladino, New York City Council represents District
nineteen of Northeast Queens. Thank you so much, all, very
well said.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Appreciate you being on Thank you Darling, I have a
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