NYC lets immigration officials open an office at Rikers jail, a priority for Trump
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 13:55 EDT, 9 April 2025 | Updated: 13:56 EDT, 9 April 2025
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 in the city's largest lockup.
But immigrant rights groups and Adams´ critics cast the Tuesday executive order as a concerning quid pro quo after federal prosecutors dropped corruption charges against the Democrat so he could help support the Republican President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
Adams announced plans to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to resume operations at the jail in February after meeting with Trump border czar Tom Homan, though details of the arrangement weren´t released until Tuesday's order.
The Rikers Island jail complex, on a hard-to-reach island in the East River, has long suffered from rampant disorder and neglect and faces a possible federal takeover.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-14589131/NYC-lets-immigration-officials-open-office-Rikers-jail-priority-Trump.html
