New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams stated he met with President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, on Thursday to arrange for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers to renew operations on Rikers Island, which homes town’s largest jail.
“Today, I met with ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan and local federal law enforcement officials to discuss how we can work together to remove violent migrant gangs from our city,” Adams stated in an announcement.
“We are now working on implementing an executive order that will reestablish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — as was the case for 20 years,” he continued.
The ICE workplace on Rikers Island closed in 2014 after Mayor Invoice de Blasio signed into legislation a sanctuary metropolis invoice. Homan and Adams met in December and mentioned their curiosity in reopening the ICE workplace, as Trump ready to execute his mass-deportation marketing campaign promise.
Adams stated in his assertion that the ICE brokers can be targeted particularly on “assisting the correctional intelligence bureau in their criminal investigations, in particular those focused on violent criminals and gangs.”
Adams additionally stated he talked to Homan about ways in which New York Police Division (NYPD) detectives could possibly be embedded into federal activity forces to assist tackle “violent gangs” and crime.
The assembly comes simply days after Trump’s Division of Justice (DOJ) ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption expenses towards the mayor, who had cozied up to the president in current months as his bribery trial set for April neared.
Adams was indicted in September on counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, solicitation of a contribution by a international nationwide and bribery. He has denied any wrongdoing.
In a brief memo, appearing Deputy Lawyer Normal Emil Bove stated the DOJ reached the choice to dismiss the counts with out assessing the power of the case and indicated that the attorneys who filed the costs did nothing flawed.
Bove stated the case “improperly interfered” with Adams’s 2025 mayoral marketing campaign and alluded to the Trump administration’s efforts to finish “weaponization” within the federal authorities as a cause to wind down the case.
Bove additionally claimed that the pending prosecution “unduly restricted” Adams’s capability to concentrate on “the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”
In his assertion Thursday, Adams reiterated his need to work with the Trump administration to handle unlawful immigration.
“As I have always said, immigrants have been crucial in building our city and will continue to be key to our future success, but we must fix our long-broken immigration system,” Adams stated. “Since the spring of 2022, New York City has been forced to shoulder the burden of a national humanitarian crisis where more than 230,000 migrants have come to our city seeking support, at a cost of approximately $7 billion, with little help from the previous administration.”
“That is why I have been clear that I want to work with the new federal administration, not war with them, to find common ground and make better the lives of New Yorkers,” he added.
