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.
