The Eric Adams administration is permitting ICE to return to Rikers Island to help carry out criminal investigations into organized violence and migrant gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

The move re-establishes ICE at the notorious prison after a decade-long hiatus, officials said. Federal immigration agents have been prohibited from having an office on Rikers since the city passed a bill in 2014 that restricts cooperation between ICE officials and the city’s Department of Correction.

New York City's Rikers Island jail facility will house federal officials to assist in ongoing criminal investigations

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only to work on criminal cases.

For the first time in a decade, ICE is returning to Rokers Island following an executive order from New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. The move allows federal immigration officials to open an office inside the jail complex,

Federal immigration enforcers are welcome back to the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island — after a decade in exile under the city’s sanctuary-city laws — according to a mayoral executive order signed Tuesday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at the Rikers Island jail to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams plans to sue the mayor for sanctuary law violations. She was joined at the rally by other council members, immigration advocates, and groups that have been pushing to close Rikers Island.

Mayor Adams’ office issued an executive order late Tuesday allowing ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — a move sought by President Trump’s administration that comes on the heels