Not surprised Rikers is named after slaveowners responsible for enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act; members of original #TeamSendThemBack—the "Kidnapping Club"—a police conspiracy to grab Black New Yorkers without habeus corpus and send them into slavery https://hellgatenyc.com/van-wyck-just-sounds-evil
So Who the Hell Is Major Deegan? - Hell Gate

A new book tells us of the sometimes extremely unremarkable men that our roads, bridges, and tunnels are named after.

It's outrageous that Rikers Island leadership @CorrectionNYC is violating with impunity internal rules and City law banning immigration detainers and cooperation with #ICE for nonviolent offenders. #TeamSendThemBack needs to become #TeamGoingToJail https://gothamist.com/news/teamsendthemback-private-emails-reveal-cozy-relationship-cooperation-between-nyc-correction-officers-and-ice
'#teamsendthemback': Private emails reveal cozy relationship, cooperation between NYC correction officers and ICE

Department of Correction officers scheduled release times to facilitate ICE pickups and shared unsolicited information that could be used to expedite removals, according to the emails.

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