A Manhattan Supreme Court docket justice on Friday blocked the Adams administration from bringing federal immigration officers onto Rikers Island.
The preliminary injunction will forestall brokers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and different federal companies from organising store on the jail advanced till the case, filed by the New York Metropolis Council towards the mayor and his administration, is resolved.
“New York City, which thrives as a global hub due in large part to its reputation as being a welcoming home for immigrant communities from around the world, risks having this goodwill and invaluable reputation irreparably damaged as a result of an Executive Order borne out of Mayor Adams’ alleged conflict of interest,” Justice Mary Rosado wrote in her determination.
Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro is pictured at New York Metropolis Corridor on April 1, 2025. (Michael Appleton / Mayoral Images Workplace)
The mayor’s prime deputy, Randy Mastro, signed an govt order in April to offer the inexperienced mild to federal brokers to function places of work on Rikers. The Council filed the go well with difficult it every week later, arguing that the order was illegal and the “poisoned fruit” of a corrupt cope with the Trump administration.
Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who’s at present operating for mayor, mentioned in a press release that the choice was a “victory” that will shield New Yorkers from Trump’s immigration “overreach.”
“New Yorkers are counting on our city to protect their civil rights, and yet, Mayor Adams has attempted to betray this obligation by handing power over our city to Trump’s ICE because he is compromised,” she mentioned. “This attempted corrupt bargain to allow ICE to set up a center on Rikers would only make our city, and all New Yorkers, less safe.”
“We disagree with the judge’s decision, and we remain confident we will ultimately prevail in this case,” Mastro mentioned in a press release. “At no point does the judge dispute that the substance of our executive order fully complies with local law — that’s because it does. Furthermore, there is no actual conflict of interest here, and the mayor responded to the appearance of a conflict by delegating this issue to me as his first deputy mayor — whom the judge herself described as an ‘accomplished and highly educated attorney’ — and I acted entirely independently of the mayor.”
New York Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, left, is pictured at a press convention about Justice Mary Rosado’s ruling to keep up a restraining order in place to maintain ICE off of Rikers Island on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Every day Information)
Trump’s deportation efforts in New York have ramped up in latest weeks, with brokers lurking within the metropolis’s immigration courthouses to arrest immigrants checking in for routine courtroom proceedings of their asylum circumstances.
The mayor’s attorneys have argued that any dangers of imminent hurt are not more than hypothesis. The choose wrote that she discovered that argument “disingenuous.”
“It is akin to the police telling a 911 caller that they will not assist a victim who calls while a burglar attempts to enter her house but will be helped once the burglar enters her house,” Rosado wrote.
The choose additionally wrote that the Council was possible to achieve displaying that, on the very least, the mayor seemed to be executing a corrupt cope with the Trump administration by agreeing to convey ICE again onto Rikers.
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The Rikers Island jail advanced stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline within the background June 20, 2014. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig, File)
The mayor was indicted on bribery expenses in September, and was set to go on trial in April till President Trump’s Division of Justice ordered the fees dropped, partly as a result of they impeded Adams’ capacity to assist perform the president’s hardline immigration agenda.
That directive prompted waves of resignations inside Manhattan Federal Court docket, together with that of then-U.S. Lawyer Danielle Sassoon — who alleged there was a quid professional quo between Adams and Trump.
Murad Awawdeh, the president of the New York Immigration Coalition, mentioned that the ruling would forestall “thousands” of these in pretrial detention at Rikers from being deported: “New York City should not be in the business of carrying out Donald Trump’s mass disappearance agenda, which is in fact illegal under our local laws,” Awawdeh mentioned.
Initially Revealed: June 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM EDT
