It appears that the Trump administration is going to be reopening Rikers Island to the federal government. 

The move was announced by President Donald Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan, The Daily Mail reports.

Homan made the announcement on Friday, when he appeared on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends. He was joined, there, by New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D).

It was quite the unusual combination - Adams and Homman. But, Adams has suggested that he is one of the Democrats who is willing to work with the Trump administration on the issue of illegal immigration - which has really hurt New York City.

Reopening Rikers?!

It appears, based on what Adams and Homman had to say, that Adams is going to help the Trump administration get the Rikers Island prison back up and working.

Adams, during his Fox appearance, said:

As I sat down with Tom earlier, I said that we're going to look at all the legalese. I'm able to do an executive order to put them back on Rikers Island where they should be with part of our criminal justice apparatus.

Homman, for his part, called the move "a game changer."

He said:

Not only will we get the bad guys when they hit the street, the intelligence of how TDA operates, where they're operating, all this intelligence they gather at Rikers we'll have access to.

Adams and Homman, no doubt, will have their work cut out for them, considering that Democrats have worked hard to make New York City a "sanctuary" city, one meant to protect illegal immigrants residing in the United States from the federal government.

It's been done before

Rikers Island has been open to the federal government before, for the purpose of addressing the illegal immigration problem.

The New York Post spoke a former assistant chief at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office about the situation.

Per the outlet, "Former assistant field office director Scott Mechkowski recalled when the immigration agency was allowed into Rikers, giving way to a 'seamless' handoff of illegal migrants released from local custody."

The Post goes on to note how, "In 2014, ICE encountered an average of 3,200 illegal migrant criminals through the Rikers program." Mechkowski said:

It was seamless. They would get booked into the jail and we would be able to identify them almost immediately, and once we could confirm that they were a person of interest, we would drop a detainer and the detainer was honored. The transition was very smooth.

This, as Homman said, could be a "game changer."