{"id":2829,"date":"2025-04-08T23:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:17:27","slug":"statement-from-speaker-adams-on-mayor-adams-administrations-executive-order-to-allow-trump-administration-agencies-to-operate-on-rikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/04\/08\/2829\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Adams on Mayor Adams\u2019 Administration\u2019s Executive Order to Allow Trump Administration Agencies to Operate on Rikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On Tuesday, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro issued <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/home\/downloads\/pdf\/executive-orders\/2025\/eo-50.pdf\"><em>Executive Order 50<\/em><\/a><em> to re-establish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island for criminal enforcement. This comes on the same day that <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/08\/us\/politics\/irs-ice-tax-data-deal.html\"><em>top I.R.S. officials resigned<\/em><\/a><em> after the agency took steps to share protected tax records for deportation efforts in a departure from decades of practice. The potential of the executive order was first announced in February following Mayor Adams\u2019 meeting with border czar Tom Homan and after Department of Justice (DOJ) officials interfered in his criminal case. In response to the executive order, <strong>Speaker Adrienne Adam<\/strong><strong>s<\/strong> released the following statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis executive order is deeply concerning, particularly given Judge Ho\u2019s recent ruling on Mayor Adams\u2019 corruption case, the attempted quid pro quo, and the series of highly troubling recent events between the Trump administration and our city\u2019s mayor. It is hard not to see this action as connected to the dismissal of the Mayor\u2019s case and his willingness to cooperate with Trump\u2019s extreme deportation agenda that is removing residents without justification or due process. The mayor\u2019s decision to compromise the City\u2019s sovereignty, threaten chaos, and risk harm to our families ultimately resulted in the resignation of four deputy mayors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have made abundantly clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=3436029&amp;GUID=5B29C0C6-E1AC-428B-A8BB-D00787EEA598\">Local Law 58 of 2014<\/a> has clear guidelines that prohibit the use of office space on Rikers for the enforcement of civil immigration enforcement. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>On Tuesday, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro issued <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/home\/downloads\/pdf\/executive-orders\/2025\/eo-50.pdf\"><em>Executive Order 50<\/em><\/a><em> to re-establish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island for criminal enforcement. This comes on the same day that <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/08\/us\/politics\/irs-ice-tax-data-deal.html\"><em>top I.R.S. officials resigned<\/em><\/a><em> after the agency took steps to share protected tax records for deportation efforts in a departure from decades of practice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/04\/08\/2829\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}