The New York City Council on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to halt Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) executive order allowing the Trump administration to open an immigration office on Rikers Island.
The council alleges Adams issued the order as part of a quid pro quo agreement that ensured the federal government dropped its corruption charges against the him in exchange for allowing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate at the prison and carry out the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities.
The executive order, issued April 8, is the “poisoned fruit of Mayor Adams’s deal with the Trump Administration,” the Manhattan ...
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