Well, would you look at that — the New York City Council is throwing a fit because someone dared to invite law enforcement into a jail. You’d think Mayor Eric Adams just handed the keys to Rikers Island over to Darth Vader the way they’re acting. But no, he simply allowed federal immigration agents — you know, people whose job is to enforce federal law — to set up an office at a correctional facility. Shocking, right?
Enter Judge Mary Rosado, stepping in with a temporary block like this is some high-stakes soap opera cliffhanger. The order stops the city from even talking to the federal government about allowing ICE back into Rikers. Not implementing. Not signing. Just talking. Apparently, in 2025, even the appearance of cooperation with federal immigration authorities is enough to trigger a legal meltdown in New York.
This is the judge that is blocking NY Mayor Eric Adams from coordinating with ICE to retrieve illegal alien CRIMINALS from Rikers Island.
Everyone, meet Judge Mary Rosado.
Let’s make her famous. pic.twitter.com/o20H2r9d8A
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 22, 2025
Let’s break down what’s really going on here. The City Council — chock full of progressives who seem to think that immigration law is optional — filed a lawsuit accusing Adams of a “corrupt quid pro quo” with the Trump administration. That’s right. Not only are they trying to block ICE from reentering a facility where they previously operated for years, they’re accusing Adams of cutting a shady backroom deal with Trump in exchange for the Justice Department dropping charges against him. Which, by the way, is a claim with all the evidence of a Bigfoot sighting but a lot more media attention.
Adams, to his credit, has denied any shady dealings. He’s trying to restore some basic law-and-order functionality in a city drowning in crime, fentanyl, and gang activity — and he’s being met with lawsuits and virtue signaling from the same Council that apparently thinks letting federal agents help with gang investigations is somehow a betrayal of New York values. Which raises the question: What exactly are those “values” these days? Because from the outside, it looks a lot like chaos wrapped in woke talking points and topped with a side of misplaced priorities.
Let’s not forget, ICE had a presence at Rikers before — until 2014, when then-Mayor de Blasio and his progressive allies decided it was more important to protect illegal immigrants with violent records than to work with federal authorities. That decision didn’t make the city safer. It made Rikers a black hole of enforcement where criminals could slip through the cracks while politicians patted themselves on the back for their “compassion.”
Adams, at least, is trying to fix that — albeit clumsily. He even went so far as to assign his first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, to oversee everything so that no one could claim a conflict of interest. But in today’s Democratic Party, optics are everything and results are nothing.
So naturally, the Council ran straight to the nearest courtroom and wrapped itself in self-righteous rhetoric about “protecting communities” from the “Trump administration and its agents.” Never mind that those agents are actually trying to protect communities — from gangs, from drugs, from crime. But hey, why let reality get in the way of a good campaign line?
Here’s the truth: the City Council doesn’t care about public safety. They care about grandstanding. They care about winning the next election by proving how much they hate Donald Trump — even if it means undermining their own city’s security.
And if ICE has to be treated like Voldemort just to make a point, so be it. Meanwhile, ordinary New Yorkers — the ones living with the real consequences of failed policies — are left wondering why the people in charge seem more interested in picking fights with federal law enforcement than cleaning up their own backyard.
