Adams admin reopen Rikers to ICE — rolling back portion of NYC’s sanctuary city laws

The Adams administration has opened the doors for ICE to return to troubled Rikers Island — rolling back a portion of the Big Apple’s sanctuary city laws and fulfilling a demand of the Trump administration.

The executive order, issued late Thursday night, will immediately allow immigration officials to reopen offices on the island jail — with city officials citing a “critical” need for federal law enforcement to have “real-time” information sharing with the Department of Correction and NYPD about “criminal gang activity” in and out of city jails.

“The safety of the City of New York has been jeopardized by violent transnational gangs and criminal enterprises-including transnational gangs such as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua-that have been designated by federal authorities as foreign terrorist organizations,” reads the order, which was issued by newly appointed First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.

The order, first reported by CBS, allows federal officials to operate in the correctional facility and share intelligence to investigate “violent criminals and gangs” as part of only criminal probes, not civil immigration enforcement.

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service were also given the same access.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams was quick to admonish the order, calling it “deeply concerning.”

“The Council is closely reviewing the order, and is prepared to defend against violations of the law to protect the safety of all New Yorkers,” said Adams, who is vying for the Democratic nomination for mayor and has no relation to the mayor.

Immigration officials previously had offices on Rikers but were given the boot in 2014, as part of the city’s formalization of sanctuary city laws under former Mayor de Blasio.

The de Blasio-era law also limited DOC’s information sharing with ICE and bared jails from honoring 48-hour civil detainers, unless the inmate was convicted of a violent offense in the prior five years or the feds came with a judicial warrant.

The directive from the Adams administration comes two months after the mayor sat down with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, who, at the time, was “not happy” with the city’s lack of action to help with immigration.

Homan had pressed Hizzoner in the closed-door meeting at Gracie Mansion on getting ICE agents back on Rikers. Afterward, Adams issued a statement saying that he was exploring an executive order to fulfill the directive.

The border czar followed up the meeting with a joint media appearance with the mayor on Fox & Friends where Homan threatened to be “up his butt” if he didn’t help with immigration.

In the week since, lawyers in the administration have been working on drafts of the executive order to try to legally roll back the prior administration’s law.

Adams recused himself from the process, which was reported by Politico earlier on Tuesday, to avoid any appearance of a quid pro quo with the Trump admin.

Mastro was instead tapped to handle the executive order.

The mayor’s coziness with President Trump and the controversial dismissal of his federal corruption probe has sparked severe backlash from many inside the Democratic party, who accused Adams of cutting a deal to escape prosecution.

The DOJ had cited Adams’ inability to assist with immigration enforcement as a key reason his case should be tossed.

The politician without a party to call home is now set to run as an independent in his long-shot bid to return to City Hall.