NYC First Deputy Mayor Orders ICE Office at Rikers Island for Criminal Investigations

Executive Order for ICE Presence at Rikers Island

• 🎯 First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro has issued an executive order allowing federal immigration agents to establish an office on Rikers Island.
• 🤝 The agents will coordinate investigations into international terror groups involved in serious violent crimes.

Scope and Limitations of the Order

• 🔍 This initiative reestablishes immigration agents at the jail after a 10-year hiatus.
• ⚖️ Mastro clarified that the order focuses strictly on criminal investigations and law enforcement, explicitly excluding civil matters.
• 📜 The executive order is designed to comply with sanctuary city laws, which permit cooperation on criminal investigations but not on civil deportations.
• ✅ The order is carefully and narrowly tailored to cooperate with investigations into crimes such as murder and rape.