Adams wants to reopen Rikers Island ICE office, Trumps border czar says after mayor pulls complete 180 in sitdown

Mayor Eric Adams told incoming border czar Tom Homan he wants to reopen the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Rikers Island — sparking swift outrage from immigration advocates and setting up an almost-certainly fierce fight with the City Council.The mayor’s desire to thaw the troubled jail complex’s ICE office — recounted to The Post by Homan — came during a cordial face-to-face between the pair Thursday at Gracie Mansion focused largely on sanctuary cities, deporting alleged criminal migrants and finding more than 320,000 missing migrant children, sources said.The hardline Homan, who was handpicked by President-elect Donald Trump, said he left the hour-long sit-down convinced that the Democrat and former NYPD captain pulled a “complete 180” on his previously progressive immigration views.“I truly believe sitting down with him, I saw the cop come out of him,” Homan told The Post Friday.“I think he really wants to help with public safety threats and he really wants to help find these children.”Sources said the newfound chums devoted “quite a bit” of talk to reopening the Rikers ICE office — which closed after a 2014 sanctuary city law signed by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Adams’ chummy meeting with Homan and his apparent desire to return ICE to Rikers prompted fierce condemnation from progressives.Deputy Council Speaker Diana Ayala (D-Manhattan/Bronx) charged that the mayor’s recent comments on immigration policy verge on “harassment of these poor people.”“Quite frankly, I am disappointed about everything that is coming out of his mouth as of late.He needs to cut it out because we will fight that vigorously and its going to be a problem,” she told The Post.“Our mayor is completely out of touch with our own laws, what he can and cannot do,” she added, “and he is making the wrong call.”Ayala recounted a case from before the ICE Rikers office closed in 2015 in which a youngster wrongly picked up for a murde...