Judge strikes down Adams’ plan to let ICE operate on Rikers, citing dismissed corruption case

A Manhattan judge has canceled an effort from the administration of the mayor Adams to allow the federal immigration authorities to operate on the island of Rikers, judging that the action was ethically “impermisible” because it came into the tasks of the administration of the Ministry of Justice of President Trump ensuring a very controversial rejection of the corruption of the mayor.

The effort dates back to April 8, when Randy Mastro, the first deputy mayor of Adams, published an executive decree which sought to allow ice agents to reopen an office on Rikers in order to apply criminal immigration to the city lock.

The ordinance exasperated the municipal council of democrats, which has filed a legal action alleging that it was equivalent to an illegal favor that the team of Adams made for Trump in exchange for the Doj of the president having a few days earlier canceled his criminal case. The people appointed by Trump to the MJ wrote that Adams’ prosecution should be launched because she prevented the mayor from helping to advance the agenda of Trump’s “mass deportation”.

In a 7 -page decision published on Monday, the judge of the Supreme Court of Manhattan, Mary Rosado, shaved with the argument of the Democtats Council, writing the order of Mastro is “zero and unvenue” because he stole from the law of the city which prohibits civil servants from taking measures on the questions in which they can have a personal conflict.

“The calendar of public declarations and the current criminal proceedings so clearly demonstrate an inadmissible appearance of a conflict of interest,” the judge wrote about the order. “The appearance of this conflict and the failure of mayor Adams to fully reject the whole process.”

The mayor’s spokesperson did not immediately return the requests for comments.

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Originally published: September 8, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. Hae