New York Mayor Eric Adams met with President Trump's border emperor Tom Homan on Thursday to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to resume operations on Rikers Island, which houses the city's largest prison. He said he met.
“Today I met with 'border Emperor' Tom Homan and local federal law enforcement officials to discuss how we could work together to eliminate violent migrant gangs from our city,” Adams said. said in a statement.
“We are currently working on implementing executive orders that will reestablish the ability of ICE agents to operate at Rikers Island, as we have been in 20 years,” he continued.
The Rikers Island ice office was closed in 2014 after Mayor Birde Blasio signed the law on the Sanctuary City Bill. Homan and Adams We met in December As Trump prepared to carry out his mass discard campaign promise, we discussed their interest in reopening their ice offices.
Adams said in a statement that ice agents will focus on “the Correctional Intelligence Bureau in criminal investigations, particularly those focusing on violent criminals and gangs.”
Adams also said he spoke to Homan about how New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives would be incorporated into the federal task force to deal with “violent gangs” and crime.
The meeting comes days after Trump's Justice Department (DOJ) ordered federal prosecutors to withdraw corruption charges against the mayor in recent months as the April bribery trial approached.
Adams was charged in September with counting conspiracy to solicit contributions by wire fraud, wire fraud, foreigners and bribery. He denied any misconduct.
inShort notesDeputy Attorney General Emil Bove said the DOJ reached a decision to dismiss the count without assessing the strength of the case, indicating that the lawyers who filed the charges had not done anything wrong.
Bove said the case “inappropriately interfered” with Adams' 2025 mayoral campaign, hinting at the Trump administration's efforts to end the federal government's “weaponization” as a reason to resolve the case. .
Bove also alleged that the pending prosecutors “unfairly limited” Adams' ability to focus on “illegal immigration and violent crimes that escalated under previous administration policies.”
In a statement Thursday, Adams reiterated his desire to work with the Trump administration to deal with illegal immigration.
“As I always said, immigration is important in building our cities and will remain key to future success, but we must fix the long-broken immigration system. Not,” Adams said. “Since the spring of 2022, New York City has been seeking support with over 230,000 immigrants coming to our city for about $7 billion, with over 230,000 immigrants coming to our city, and mostly seeking help from the previous administration. I am forced to be forced to do so.”
“That's why I wanted to work with the new federal government rather than a war with them, find a common foundation and improve the lives of New Yorkers,” he added.
