Following his second meeting with President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would once again allow federal immigration authorities to operate inside the Rikers Island jail complex.
In an emailed statement on Feb. 13, hours after his roughly 90-minute meeting with Homan, the mayor said he plans to issue an executive order reestablishing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) presence at the island jail complex. He said ICE agents will specifically work with the Department of Correction intelligence bureau in its criminal investigations to root out “violent criminals and gangs.”
