Eric Adams weighs closer involvement with federal agency in sign of beleaguered mayor’s warm alliance with Trump
In a sign of increasing cooperation with Donald Trump’s anti-immigration plans, New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, is weighing whether to allow the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) to re-establish an office at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail.
An Ice office there closed in 2015 under sanctuary laws that severely limit the city’s involvement with federal immigration enforcement. Current law explicitly bans Ice authorities from having an office tasked with enforcement duties on department of corrections property, which includes Rikers.