The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District and five officials with the federal public integrity unit quit after the Justice Department ordered charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.

Federal prosecutors acted after a Justice Department directive said the case hindered President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The U.S. Justice Department has sued New York state officials over alleged failures to enforce federal immigration law, Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday. Bondi said the lawsuit targets a “green-light law” that allows people living in the country illegally to obtain driver’s licenses in New York.