A mother and her three children are on their way back home to New York following their detention by immigration enforcement officials last month at a dairy farm, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had criticized detaining the family while their case was working its way through the U.S. immigration system.

The family was returned to New York after being taken into custody last month and held at a detention center in Texas, officials and advocates said.

The Eric Adams administration is permitting ICE to return to Rikers Island to help carry out criminal investigations into organized violence and migrant gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

“ICE is notorious for sweeping up anybody in their path, wherever they are, whether they have a reason or a basis to go after them,” said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New ...

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.