Eric Adams weighs closer involvement with federal agency in sign of beleaguered mayor’s warm alliance with Trump

In a sign of increasing cooperation with Donald Trump’s anti-immigration plans, New York City’s Democratic mayor Eric Adams is weighing whether to allow the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) to re-establish an office at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail.

An Ice office there closed in 2015 under sanctuary laws that severely limit the city’s involvement with federal immigration enforcement. Having a facility at the jail would make it easier for federal agents to deport people held there before they can be released on to the streets.