Adams allows ICE to open office at Rikers Island

(The Center Square) — Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City’s notorious Rikers Island prison under a directive from the Adams administration, which says the move will help with investigations of transnational gangs and terrorist groups.

An executive order, signed Tuesday by New York City’s First Deputy Mayor Randy Maestro, permits the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to set up office space on the island, which houses city jails. They will work with the city’s Correction Intelligence Bureau to investigate alleged “violent criminals and gangs, crimes committed at or facilitated by persons in DOC custody, and drug trafficking,” the order states.