Queens Daily Eagle22h
Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
A 38-year-old man named Ramel Powell became the first person to die on Rikers Island in 2025. The Department of Correction ...
Gothamist1d
Mayor Adams wants immigration officers back on Rikers. Can he do that?
Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom ...
Queens Chronicle23h
Adams says bring ICE back to Rikers
Mayor Adams seeks to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back onto Rikers Island, he said in a statement ...
Former NY ICE official applauds ‘critical’ move to reopen Rikers Island to feds
A former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office heralded Mayor Eric Adams’ vow to ...
NYC move to reopen ICE office on Rikers Island stirs passion on both sides
The reaction to the mayor’s deal with the Trump administration to re-open ICE immigration operations on Rikers Island has ...
NYC mayor preps executive order allowing ICE agents into Rikers Island after meeting border czar
Border czar Tom Homan met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday in a sign of how the Trump administration has its ...
After Meeting With Trump’s Border Czar, Adams Opens Rikers to ICE Agents
The executive order seems to get around New York City’s sanctuary laws designed to prevent cooperation with the enforcement ...
NYC mayor to allow immigration officials to operate at Rikers jail after Trump border czar meeting
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...
Homan pushes back on idea of Adams case being dropped for Rikers access
President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan on Sunday pushed back on the idea that prosecutors were ordered to dismiss charges ...