A Manhattan judge has struck down an effort by Mayor Adams’ administration to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island, ruling the action was ethically “impermissible” because it came on the heels of President Trump’s Department of Justice securing a highly controversial dismissal of the mayor’s corruption indictment.

The effort dates back to April 8, when Randy Mastro, Adams’ first deputy mayor, issued an executive order that sought to let ICE agents reopen an office on Rikers in order to conduct criminal immigration enforcement at the city lockup.

The order infuriated City Council Democrats, who filed a lawsuit alleging it amounted to an illegal favor Adams’ team did for Trump in exchange for the president’s DOJ having just days earlier quashed his criminal case

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