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Adrienne Adams: “The council actually enacted a lawsuit to stop the mayor…”

Featuring: Adrienne Adams, Democratic | Speaker of the New York City Council, Former Candidate, New York State Senate

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New York City Council Speaker Adrian Adams Discusses Rikers Island, ICE Lawsuit, and Mayoral Race

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

Do we know how many agents, what this office looks like and when and what the timeline is? We know none of those. We have no answers to those questions. What we did was The council actually enacted a lawsuit to stop the mayor from allowing ICE onto Rikers Island. It is illegal. So we consider his executive order to be illegal. And we know that once Donald Trump's ICE gets onto Rikers island, all bets are off. (00:58–01:10)

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Asserts that the City Council filed a lawsuit to prevent ICE from being allowed onto Rikers Island.

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