Eric Adams meets Trump ‘border tsar’ to discuss Ice plan for Rikers Island jail

Mayor says plan to re-establish Ice office under discussion despite New York law prohibiting such a move

In a sign of increasing cooperation with Donald Trump's anti-immigration plans, the Republican administration's hardline so-called border tsar", Tom Homan, met with New York's Democratic mayor Eric Adams on Thursday as the White House pushes for more detaining and deporting of immigrants, especially those accused of crimes.

The two resumed discussions on a controversial topic they had talked about in a previous meeting in December - re-establishing an office for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail.