The New York City Council recently filed a lawsuit to stop Mayor Eric Adams’ executive order allowing U.S. Immigration and ...

New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate in the Rikers ...

The New York City Council filed a lawsuit Tuesday​ trying to stop the Adams administration's move allowing Immigration and ...

The lawsuit further alleges that the executive order was part of the “corrupt” quid pro quo made by Adams to get his criminal ...

Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry said the Adams administration’s plan to allow ICE to operate an office on Rikers ...

City Council members sued Mayor Eric Adams over his alleged “corrupt bargain” to return ICE to Rikers Island – raging that it’d give President Trump free rein to deport innocent New Yorkers.

A lawsuit filed by the City Council alleges that the executive order issued by Mayor Eric Adams' administration allowing ICE ...

New York Civil Liberties Union senior policy counsel Zach Ahmad released the following statement: "By giving ICE the keys to Rikers Island, the Adams administration is once again selling out New ...

ICE formerly had offices on Rikers Island, which enabled the city to transfer undocumented immigrants jailed there to federal custody. In 2014, the city passed sanctuary laws that banned ICE from ...

ICE agents previously had a presence on the Rikers Island facility, which is on a hard-to-reach island in the East River, but they were effectively banned from operating there in 2014 under New ...