insisted that ICE will not start deporting inmates en masse. According to the executive order Mastro signed earlier this week, ICE will only be permitted to pursue investigations on Rikers Island ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement back onto Rikers Island after 10 years on Thursday. “This is all about public safety and protecting New Yorkers from these violent gangs," Randy Mastro ...

(The Center Square) — The Democratic-led New York City Council is planning to challenge Mayor Eric Adams' move to allow federal immigration agents to open an office at the Rikers Island prison ...

arguing that it will open the door to potential violations of the city’s sanctuary laws and inmates’ due process rights. “By giving ICE the keys to Rikers Island, the Adams administration is ...

The same week, a non-renewed, non-transformed Rikers Island reported its fifth inmate death of the year: Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died of a ruptured appendix after days of obvious symptoms that jail ...

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius For years, a handful of federal immigration agents worked out of a trailer office at the jail complex on Rikers Island in New York City.

The Council will vote on the pre-considered resolution after First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order that allows ICE agents to return to Rikers Island, which many critics say ...

NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams' administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island to work on gang- and drug-related criminal investigations in the ...

ICE will return to Rikers for gang and terrorism probes under a new executive order, sparking controversy over ties to Adams' dropped charges. Labor Department touts DOGE’s ‘incredible ...

NEW YORK — The City Council empowered itself Thursday to sue Mayor Adams over his decision to let ICE agents operate on Rikers Island, arguing the move is “the poisonous fruit” of a deal the ...