The implementation of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s executive order allowing federal immigration agents to re-establish offices on Rikers Island would “tear a hole through the fabric of New York City’s sanctuary laws,” a coalition of public defender organizations, immigrant and civil rights advocates argued Monday.
The coalition made its case in a legal brief filed May 12 in support of a lawsuit seeking to stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from returning to the city-run jail.
