A top Adams administration official signed an executive order Tuesday night allowing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex for the first time in over a decade.
The move drew swift backlash from elected officials and advocates charging it is the result of an alleged quid-pro-quo between Adams’ private attorney and Trump’s Justice Department to have his case dropped by a federal judge last week.
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