Blaz frowns on Viv ‘resistance’

THE MAYOR IS splitting from the City Council speaker over her efforts to further rein in the amount the city cooperates with federal immigration authorities.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is pushing new legislation to further shield undocumented immigrant New Yorkers from President Trump’s deportation push.

“We won’t back down from these threats. We will resist,” she said at a hearing on the nine bills.

One bill would bar federal law enforcement officers from nonpublic areas of city property like homeless shelters, welfare offices and schools, unless they have a warrant from a judge.

Another would bar the Department of Probation from honoring most requests to detain immigrants.

Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, said the administration shares the Council’s goals but criticized many of the specific provisions of the bills.

She called for changes to the bills to allow officials “to work with federal immigration authorities in limited circumstances where there are risks to public safety, while otherwise prioritizing remaining an accessible city.”