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Federal immigration officials will be allowed to work out of dedicated offices on Rikers Island for the first time in a decade, under an executive order Mayor Eric Adams’ administration issued late Tu...
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this will significantly bolster ICE’s capacity to do regular immigration enforcement on Rikers Island.
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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said the Rikers decision is among a series of “highly troubling recent events” since Adams’ criminal charges were dropped.

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