NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella coverage and advocacy group that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights teams all through New York, and New York Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams have strongly condemned Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement relating to the opening of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace on Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York that will facilitate the deportation of Caribbean and different immigrants.
This follows Adams’ coordination and public appearances with US “border czar” Thomas Homan, which got here after federal prosecutors dropped Adams’ corruption case on the behest of President Donald Trump.
“For hundreds of years, immigrants have constructed the financial system and tradition of New York Metropolis – and for years, our sanctuary legal guidelines and insurance policies have protected immigrant New Yorkers from ICE’s predatory enforcement practices. Whereas Trump is detaining and disappearing folks throughout the nation with out due course of, Mayor Adams and his administration are rolling out the welcome mat for violating New Yorkers’ civil rights with impunity,” NYIC’s President and CEO Murad Awawdeh instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) on Wednesday.
“Adams is making a runaround on town’s longstanding sanctuary legal guidelines – public security measures that make New York safer for everybody – and attacking the beliefs that make New York the best metropolis on the planet,” Awawdeh added.
“Now’s time for New York’s elected officers to face agency in defending our immigrant households, as our mayor has as soon as once more proved he’s unwilling to,” he continued. “We’ll urgently work with the NYC Metropolis Council to battle this.”
Speaker Adams, with no relations with Mayor Adams, famous that First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro issued Govt Order 50 on Tuesday to re-establish ICE brokers’ skill to function on Rikers Island for legal enforcement.
“The mayor’s resolution to compromise town’s sovereignty, threaten chaos, and danger hurt to our households finally resulted within the resignation of 4 deputy mayors,” she added.
“As we have now made abundantly clear, Native Legislation 58 of 2014 has clear pointers that prohibit using workplace house on Rikers for civil immigration enforcement,” Speaker Adams continued. “The Council is intently reviewing the order and is ready to defend towards legislation violations to guard the protection of all New Yorkers.”
Govt Order 50 notes that Rikers Island is the location of correctional services underneath the jurisdiction of the Division of Corrections (DOC) and at present homes members and associates of designated terrorist organizations, amongst different people incarcerated there.
