Mayor Adams encouraged asylum seekers Tuesday to continue showing up for immigration court hearings, even as the city’s Law Department blasted President Trump’s administration for creating “a culture of fear” by using such proceedings as ICE hunting grounds for Trump’s “mass deportation” efforts.

Anxiety in New York’s immigrant communities has been heightened since last month , when ICE agents detained Dylan, a 20-year-old Bronx public school student from Venezuela, after he attended a routine hearing in Manhattan related to his asylum claim.

The detention of Dylan, whose last name’s being withheld at the request of his relatives who fear retaliation, is part of a broader national effort by Trump’s administration to ensnare immigrants in deportation roundups as they appear for rout

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