Mayor Eric Adams was quickly blocked Monday from taking any steps to permit the return of federal immigration officers on Rikers Island.
Manhattan Decide Mary Rosado issued the short-term restraining order on the request of the Metropolis Council, which sued to dam ICE and different federal regulation enforcement brokers from organising store on the troubled jail advanced.
“City Hall and all other New York City government officials, officers, personnel, and agencies are prohibited from taking any steps toward negotiating, signing, or implementing any Memorandum of Understanding with the federal government regarding federal law enforcement presence on Department of Correction property,” Rosado wrote.
The order is in place till not less than Friday morning, when either side will argue the case in court docket.
The Adams administration has maintained that Immigration and Customs Enforcement
brokers will solely work on legal instances, and never conduct any civil enforcement on the jail.
The council pushed again, saying that permitting ICE to return to Rikers would open the floodgates for mass deportations on the lockup.
ICE beforehand had an workplace on Rikers, however was eliminated with the passing of sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines in 2014 beneath then-Mayor Invoice de Blasio.
