New York Judge Blocks Ice From Setting Up Office Inside Rikers Island

A judge issued a restraining order connected Monday, April 21, to extremity New York City from proceeding pinch its scheme to group up a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency wrong Rikers Island. Judge Mary Rosado issued nan written bid up of a proceeding connected April 25. 

New York City Council sues politician complete executive order

The New York City Council sued Mayor Eric Adams for entering into an statement pinch ICE and national agencies to found themselves wrong nan jail. Council members accused Adams of entering into nan statement aft nan Justice Department dropped national criminal charges revenge against him.

The suit claimed nan statement betwixt Adams and nan White House amounted to a “quid pro quo.” The DOJ said it dropped nan charges because Adams’ charges “undermined” President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.

NYC mayoral campaigner and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said nan scheme of allowing ICE agents into Rikers Island would make nan group successful nan metropolis consciousness nervous.

“Allowing ICE to run an agency connected Rikers Island and transportation retired Trump’s destabilizing and extremist wide deportation schedule would make everyone successful our metropolis little safe. The Council stands patient successful our efforts to protect nan authorities and information of each New Yorkers against attacks by nan Trump management and its agents,” Adrienne Adams said.

She added nan assembly looks guardant to nan proceeding and appreciates nan judge’s ruling to halt nan executive bid from taking place. 

In a connection to aggregate news outlets, a spokesperson for nan mayor’s agency said they are complying pinch nan judge’s bid and besides awaiting Friday’s hearing. 

How does NYC’s sanctuary rule forestall ICE from operating successful New York City prisons?

Before NYC’s sanctuary rule went into effect successful 2014, migration officials could run astatine Rikers. Current sanctuary rule ensures each New Yorkers are protected sloppy of their citizenship status, giving everyone entree to aesculapian care, education, jobs and nan expertise to study crimes without nan consequence of deportation. The rule besides prevents authorities and section authorities from moving pinch national officials to deport residents.

What does nan executive bid say?

Mayor Adams, a Democrat, has met aggregate times pinch Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, complete nan president’s push for migration reform. One of nan priorities Homan expressed during nan meetings was entree to New York City’s jail, which Adams and his first lawman politician seemingly agreed to pinch an April 8 executive order.

Both Adams and nan executive bid said nan agency would not facilitate civilian migration enforcement wrong nan jail. However, nan agency will assistance pinch pack and drug-related investigations.

“The information of nan City of New York has been jeopardized by convulsive transnational gangs and criminal enterprises—including transnational gangs specified arsenic MS-13 and Tren de Aragua—that person been designated by national authorities arsenic overseas violent organizations,” nan bid reads.

The bid explains that agencies for illustration nan FBI, nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, nan Drug Enforcement Administration and nan Department of Homeland Security already person nan authority to enforce national laws successful states and cities. This action conscionable shares intelligence already collected by nan Department of Corrections and nan New York Police Department.