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The terrifying face of an alleged Tren de Aragua gangster was revealed on Friday after he was arrested by ICE officers in Denver, Colorado - a sanctuary city. Joel Matos-Nieto, a 23-year-old illegal Venezuelan migrant with a face full of tattoos, has been accused by ICE of being a member of TdA, a gang whose members often have very specific ink. According to pictures shared by ICE's Denver Field Office, Matos-Nieto was arrested on a street in Denver and was seen handcuffed next to an agent with the DEA, which often participates in ICE raids. Since its founding in a...

City Council members sued Mayor Eric Adams over his alleged “corrupt bargain” to return ICE to Rikers Island – raging that it’d give President Trump free rein to deport innocent New Yorkers. The incendiary, 29-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan court seeks to halt the long-awaited, controversial Executive Order 50 allowing the feds to reopen the dormant ICE office. Trump officials have made clear they plan to use Rikers as homebase for sweeping deportation operations, despite the order only permitting criminal probes, the lawsuit argues. “Executive Order 50 is a blank check,” the lawsuit states. “Its ostensible limitations are a...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex) lashed out at President Trump for "destroying the symbiotic relationship we Democrats has been building with immigrants under our policy of open borders. We Blacks have done our time picking cotton so whites could live the good life. Well, we done pickin' cotton. Now its time for someone else to do the pickin' fo us. The millions of new immigrants can pay back our generosity by doing the back-breaking agricultural work that needs to be done, the house-cleaning, lawn-mowing, and all the other jobs we done doin." Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) admitted "while I lack the...

(The Center Square) — Federal immigration officials will have a permanent office on New York City's notorious Rikers Island prison under a directive from the Adams administration, which says the move will help with investigations of transnational gangs and terrorist groups. An executive order, signed Tuesday by New York City's First Deputy Mayor Randy Maestro, permits the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to set up office space on the island, which houses city jails. They will work with the city's Correction Intelligence Bureau to investigate alleged "violent criminals and gangs, crimes committed at...

They’re deep thinkers. Mayor Eric Adams copped to believing the “deep state” is real this week — echoing President Trump and the MAGA movement. “I don’t want to sound conspiracy theory, but there’s a permanent government,” Adams told comedian Andrew Schulz on the “Flagrant Podcast” Wednesday. “There are people that see presidents and mayors come and go. Their attitudes will wait you out.” The admittedly tin foil hat stance from Adams came on the same day a judge dismissed the federal corruption case that has dogged him since September.

"A judge has ruled to permanently dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday. Federal prosecutors had stated that “continuing these proceedings would interfere with” the Mayor’s ability to govern, thereby threatening “federal immigration initiatives and policies.”

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The head of the FBI in New York forcibly resigned Monday in the latest high-level shakeup at the bureau under the Trump administration. James Dennehy, a well-regarded leader in the New York law enforcement community who also served in the U.S. Marine Corps, told the office he was forced to submit his resignation as assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York field office, one of the bureau's most visible posts. "Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for...

New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the Roosevelt Hotel, notorious for being turned into a shelter for migrants, will be shut down over the next few months. In a statement, the mayor said “Today marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have achieved in turning the corner on an unprecedented international humanitarian effort,” Fox News reported. “Now, thanks to the sound policy decisions of our team, we are able to announce the closure of this site and help even more asylum seekers take the next steps in their journeys as they envision an even brighter...

LaTricea Adams's group received $20 million 'environmental justice' grant while she served on Biden's Environmental Justice Advisory Council ... In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a lucrative environmental justice grant to a left-wing nonprofit whose CEO—LaTricea Adams—personally applied for the taxpayer funding while simultaneously serving as a member of a top White House advisory council. The Biden EPA announced in December that it selected Young, Gifted & Green to receive a $20 million grant under its so-called Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Program—the largest grant allowed under the program. The EPA dished...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) asserted on Sunday he was “going nowhere” despite growing calls within his party to resign after being embroiled in a bribery probe. “And I want you to be clear — you’re going to hear so many rumors and so many things, you’re going to read so much. I am going nowhere. Nowhere,” Adams said, addressing congregants at Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens Village, according to video shared on the mayor’s social platform X page. “I’m the second Black mayor in the history of the city. But God has fortified me. And no matter...

New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. Emil Bove, in his typical fashion, was having none of it. In a scathing nine-page letter, the acting deputy attorney general detailed a long list of insubordination and politicking by Danielle Sassoon, the temporary U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, related to her refusal to drop the federal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as instructed. Last September, the then-U.S. Attorney for SDNY handed down a five-count indictment against the Democratic mayor, a...

New York lefties are howling for Mayor Eric Adams’ blood, insisting he sold his soul to President Donald Trump to avoid federal prosecution; it’s a great way to distract from progressives’ own lack of answers to the city’s problem. AOC, state Senate No. 2 Mike Gianaris, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and the whole pack of Democratic mayoral wannabes all insist that only an imagined corrupt bargain can explain why the Justice Department ordered charges against Adams dropped, and why the mayor isn’t fighting tooth-and-nail against ICE’s efforts to catch and deport violent criminal “asylum seekers.” Never mind that Justice honchos...

A seventh prosecutor resigned Friday rather than heed the Justice Department’s order to toss Mayor Eric Adams’ criminal case — and suggested only a “fool” or “coward” would comply on his way out. Hagan Scotten — an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York and the lead prosecutor on the case — said in a scathing resignation letter that dismissing the bribery, corruption and other charges against Adams was a “serious mistake” that keeps Hizzoner beholden to President Trump. “Any assistant US attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday night didn’t rule out removing Mayor Eric Adams from office after allegations emerged that the feds would drop their criminal case against Hizzoner in exchange for his help with President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Hochul, the only official in the state who has the power to boot Adams from his position, revealed on MSNBC that she’s consulting with officials about the mayor’s future. The governor told host Rachel Maddow that she read a letter penned by now-former acting Manhattan US Attorney Danielle Sassoon that claimed Adams’ legal team offered a “quid pro...

New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday he will issue an executive order that will allow federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Rikers Island to assist in criminal investigations of illegal migrants. The mayor's announcement comes after he met with President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, where the pair also reportedly discussed ways to embed local New York police detectives into federal task forces investigating gangs and criminal activities, according to the New York Times. Homan confirmed that the mayor committed to helping restore a federal presence in Rikers Island prison. But based on...

Bill O’Reilly made a stunning prediction Wednesday night on NewsNation’s Cuomo: Donald Trump is going to destroy NY Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. And Trump may just have an unlikely ally to make that goal a reality. O’Reilly claimed that New York Mayor Adams “knows where the bodies are buried” when it comes to James and Bragg, the two figures who aggressively pursued Trump in court. What he means by this is Adams may hold damaging information that could help Trump turn the tables on the prosecutors who have relentlessly targeted him. “I’m going to predict...

Border czar Tom Homan is “not happy” about the Big Apple’s lack of action to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown, sources said Wednesday — setting up what could be a contentious second meeting with Mayor Eric Adams. Homan will make the newly Trump-indebted Adams come to him at New York City’s ICE headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza for the Thursday morning meeting, which will mark the pair’s second face-to-face, sources told The Post. The mayor discussed reopening ICE’s office on Rikers Island during the pair’s first sit-down in Gracie Mansion in December, and he left it vowing to crack down...

Mayor Eric Adams begged state lawmakers on Tuesday to fork over another $1.1 billion to deal with the migrant crisis ASAP — even though the governor isn’t budging. Hizzoner said the Big Apple needs the dough in 12 weeks as Adams’ opponents quickly questioned how City Hall cooked up the massive number on its wish list. But Adams was adamant that the city — which he said spent more than $6.9 billion during the years-long migrant crisis — relied on the money, despite him also crowing about his administration’s “savings” and steps to reduce the number of migrants in the...

NEW YORK - Senior Justice Department officials have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to CBS News. Adams was indicted on five counts of corruption in September, including bribery, conspiracy and campaign finance violations. He has pleaded not guilty on those counts. If he is found guilty, the charges could result in up to 45 years in prison. The Justice Department did not comment. CBS News has asked reached out to Mayor Adams' office for comment. There is...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) relationship with President Trump is alarming Democrats, who question the embattled mayor’s motives amid his ongoing legal challenges. Adams sat down with Trump for a meeting days before the president was sworn in and caught attention for a last-minute cancellation of his schedule to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Adams has argued the importance of having a relationship with Trump as mayor of the country’s largest city for the benefit of his constituents. But this also comes as Adams, who is up for reelection in November, faces the start of a bribery trial...