New York Town Mayor Eric Adams mentioned 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 the town’s greatest prison.
“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 mentioned in a commentary.
“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 persisted.
The ICE workplace on Rikers Island closed in 2014 after then-Mayor Invoice de Blasio signed into regulation a sanctuary town invoice. Homan and Adams met in December and mentioned their passion in reopening the ICE workplace, as Trump ready to execute his mass-deportation marketing campaign promise.
Adams mentioned in his commentary that the ICE brokers could be targeted particularly on “assisting the correctional intelligence bureau in their criminal investigations, in particular those focused on violent criminals and gangs.”
Adams additionally mentioned he talked to Homan about ways in which New York Police Division (NYPD) detectives might be embedded into federal activity forces to lend a hand cope with “violent gangs” and crime.
The assembly comes simply days after Trump’s Division of Justice (DOJ) ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption fees in opposition to the mayor, who had cozied up to the president in fresh months as his bribery trial set for April neared.
Adams used to be indicted in September on counts of conspiracy to dedicate twine fraud, twine fraud, solicitation of a contribution via a international nationwide and bribery. He has denied any wrongdoing.
In a quick memo, performing Deputy Legal professional Normal Emil Bove mentioned the DOJ reached the verdict to push aside the counts with out assessing the power of the case and indicated that the legal professionals who filed the costs did not anything unsuitable.
Bove mentioned the case “improperly interfered” with Adams’s 2025 mayoral marketing campaign and alluded to the Trump management’s efforts to finish “weaponization” within the federal govt as a reason why to wind down the case.
Bove additionally claimed that the pending prosecution “unduly restricted” Adams’s skill to concentrate on “the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”
In his commentary Thursday, Adams reiterated his need to paintings with the Trump management to deal with 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 mentioned. “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.
