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The Adams administration is making good on a promise to allow federal immigration agents to open an office on Rikers Island to coordinate investigations of international terrorist groups involved ...
By Hurubie Meko The federal immigration authorities will be allowed to open office space at the Rikers Island jail complex for criminal investigations, according to an executive order issued on ...
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex can’t shutter by 2027 — but still refused to say whether she ...
New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent demands placed on Mayor Eric Adams by the Trump administration.
Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from a resurrected outpost on Rikers Island — as progressive City Council members threatened to ...
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius For years, a handful of federal immigration agents worked out of a trailer office at the jail complex on Rikers Island in New York City.
Mayor Adams’ office issued an executive order late Tuesday allowing federal immigration agents to operate on Rikers Island again — a move sought by President Trump’s administration that ...
Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration authorities to establish an office at Rikers Island, following through on a promise he made during recent meetings with “border czar” Tom Homan.
(The Center Square) — Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City’s notorious Rikers Island prison under a directive from the Adams administration, which says ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations ...
The Council will vote on the pre-considered resolution after First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order that allows ICE agents to return to Rikers Island, which many critics say ...