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NYC’s Immigrant Communities Rally After Adams Moves to Open Rikers Up to ICE

HeadlineFeb 14, 2025

On Thursday, Adams met with Trump’s so-called border czar Tom Homan to discuss plans to reopen an ICE office inside New York’s Rikers Island jail complex. Protesters rallied in the streets in response. This is a Nicaraguan asylum seeker.

Nicaraguan asylum seeker: “I’m a Nicaraguan citizen. I came to this country looking for opportunity, the opportunity that was taken away from me in my country, the opportunity for freedom of speech and to work here and to be a contributing citizen. The U.S. has taken away the liberty that Nicaragua has also taken away.”

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