for The New York Times: ICE Can’t Enter Rikers for Now, Judge Rules by José A. Alvarado Jr.

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for The New York Times: ICE Can’t Enter Rikers for Now, Judge Rules

josé a. alvarado jr.

May 22, 2025

Summary

After meeting with President Trump’s border czar, Mayor Eric Adams supported allowing U.S. immigration authorities to reopen offices at Rikers Island.

A state judge temporarily blocked Mayor Eric Adams on Monday from allowing the federal government to open offices at the Rikers Island jail complex, delaying the mayor’s efforts to help President Trump with his immigration crackdown.

The judge’s temporary restraining order came after the City Council sued the mayor last week in an attempt to stop an executive order that the Adams administration issued to allow federal immigration authorities into Rikers for the first time in more than a decade.

In her order, Justice Mary Rosado of State Supreme Court in Manhattan said that City Hall was barred from “taking any steps” toward signing an agreement with the federal government at least until Friday, when she is scheduled to hold a hearing on the lawsuit. The restraining order may be “extended, modified or vacated” after the hearing, she said.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was banned from city jails in 2014 because of sanctuary laws that sought to stop the transfer of jailed undocumented immigrants into ICE custody for deportation. But Mr. Adams, a Democrat, came out in support of permitting ICE to reopen offices at Rikers after meeting several times with Mr. Trump’s border czar, Thomas Homan, who has said getting access to jails was a priority to enact the president’s immigration agenda.

Photographed for The New York Times, with words by Luis Ferré-Sadurní.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/eric-adams-ice-rikers.html

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