Hochul’s ban on cops working with ICE is an attack – Latest News
Gov. Kathy Hochul raced to gaslight New York on Tuesday by falsely claiming her new anti-ICE law will enhance public security, when it’s going to do the reverse.
Yes: the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act undermines public security — and good for her GOP gubernatorial rival, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, for standing up to her on it.
The law “ensures that law enforcement resources are directed toward local public safety priorities,” fibbed a Hochul press release, additionally claiming it’ll “keep New Yorkers safe from federal overreach.”
Utter baloney. The measure bars cops from cooperating with federal brokers who’re working primarily to get criminals off the streets and out of the nation.
It additionally bans the use of native jails to briefly maintain unlawful immigrants for ICE.
“Any police department or sheriff’s office that disobeys this law,” huffed Hochul, “will face legal action.”
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How does shielding criminals enhance public security? Well, “we need local police focused on thwarting local crimes,” claims the gov.
Please. Foreign criminals roaming the streets increase “local crimes.”
The gov pretends that letting cops work with federal law-enforcers diverts assets and can one way or the other feed federal “overreach.”
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Madness: Blocking cooperation can solely drive ICE to conduct more broad operations, burdening immigrant communities and obliging native cops to deal with brokers’ standoffs with the inevitable lefty “activists” making an attempt to dam enforcement.
Her reasoning is past flimsy: Of 53 counties that had no formal 287(g) agreements to cooperate with the feds, she argues, “seven are among the 25 safest communities in America, demonstrating that 287(g) agreements are non-essential to improving safety.”
That demonstrates nothing: Illegal-immigrant criminals are inclined to shun already-safe areas, so neither ICE nor any agreements are needed there.
The Long Island cities stricken by violent migrant gangs like MS-13 completely need local-federal cooperation.
Which is why Blakeman has eagerly labored with ICE: “We got rid of 2,000 illegal migrants with criminal records in Nassau County without raiding a church, a school, a daycare center, a hospital, because we cooperated with ICE,” he’s famous.
By distinction, the Department of Homeland Security reported in December that New York has launched 7,000 unlawful migrant criminals with out notifying ICE since President Donald Trump took workplace. Feel safer but?
Hochul is additionally testing the boundaries of the Constitution, which provides federal law precedence over state law; banning cooperation might rely as obstruction.
No New Yorker ought to fall for Hochul’s gaslighting: Her anti-ICE law is an attack on public security.
