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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shifting to weaponize of City Hall’s procurement energy towards ICE — that’s, towards metropolis distributors who additionally do business with federal immigration authorities.
It’s an apparent prelude to imposing anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions insurance policies on New York City.
Politico stories that the Mamdani’s minions are auditing contracts that the NYPD, the Corrections Department and 4 different metropolis companies have with surveillance-tech corporations akin to Vigilant Solutions and Securus.
Mamdani flack Sam Raskin says it’s simply a review of company “policies, guidelines and procedures” as “related to federal immigration enforcement” — however provides: “We will share more soon.”
The thought comes straight from the left-wing Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, which urged a vendor review in December.
STOP obsesses about “police spying” and needs the mayor to dismantle all NYPD “surveillance” capabilities, all the pieces from its gang databases to drones, license plate readers and facial-recognition tech.
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And exploiting anti-ICE fury is solely a pretext.
STOP claims that the NYPD’s contracts with Vigilant and many others. allow “backdoor access” for ICE to metropolis information, but it surely has no such proof: The metropolis Department of Investigation has flagged a few cases of prohibited information-sharing, however they concerned people, not contractors — and had nothing to do with ICE.
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Yet City Hall may play alongside, seeing this as a politically secure manner to undermine policing and to punish companies that do legit business the feds — and to pursue different agendas.
Next would come comparable “concerns” about distributors who do any business with, say, the Israeli Defense Force — , as a result of “international law.”
STOP’s claims are hysterical nonsense, however progressives will fortunately exploit its disinformation and anti-ICE obsessions to ahead their bigger agenda.
They really feel entitled to use each doable soiled trick as a result of they’re constructive each one of their causes is correct.
