New York City Mayor Eric Adams moved earlier this month to let ICE open an office at the city’s Rikers Island jail.
Now New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D)—an Eric Adams rival in the 2025 mayor’s race— wants to stop him, my colleague Beth Wang reports.
The Eric Adams administration issued the order letting federal immigration authorities onto Rikers as part of a quid pro quo with the Trump administration, the City Council claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday. The Justice Department dropped Biden-era corruption charges against Adams in a controversial move.
The lawsuit “seems baseless and contrary to ...
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