The Adams administration doubled down on their plans to bring the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement back onto Rikers Island after 10 years on Thursday.

“This is all about public safety and protecting New Yorkers from these violent gangs," Randy Mastro, the city’s new first deputy mayor, said.

Mastro insisted on Thursday that an executive order that will bring ICE back onto Rikers will not be about deportations, but public safety.

Under the city’s sanctuary law, city agencies cannot help immigration authorities with deportation efforts.

Mastro argued the order is within the boundaries of the law.

“There are no civil detainers that will be honored by the corrections department and the officials on Rikers Island because civil matters are excluded. It won’t happen, it can't happen,

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