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You’d suppose the job of a state attorney general is to hunt down bad guys, or not less than help different law-enforcement nab them, however simply attempt telling that to New York AG Letitia James — who’s now busy focusing on good guys, i.e, native law-enforcement officers who (heaven forfend!) even take into consideration serving to the feds detain unlawful immigrants.
As The Post solely reported, James has demanded that Oswego County’s Sheriff’s Office hand over paperwork which will show cooperation with federal companies comparable to ICE and Homeland Security.
This follows her related bullying of Nassau County’s Sheriff’s Office within the wake of studies that it has the nerve to help the feds implement immigration law.
Sources say she’s prone to goal more counties.
To James, it appears, aiding immigration enforcement is the crime of the century, so she’ll use all her energy to stop it.
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Please. Doesn’t her workplace have something higher to do?
Yes, we all know: New York’s wacko statutes and govt orders by Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul purport to limit native cops’ efforts to help federal brokers implement immigration law.
Yet absolutely there’s enough different work for her workers to deal with.
Crime statewide, for starters, rose 31% from 2019 to 2023, and 46% within the metropolis. Where’s James & Co. been?
Besides, 80% of New Yorkers need the feds in addition unlawful migrants who’ve been convicted of crimes, a Siena ballot discovered.
Then again, James additionally used her workplace to warfare on President Donald Trump — and anybody who does his bidding — for years; hardly ever a day goes by with out her taking some legal motion in opposition to him or his crew.
Just final week, she sued Trump for shifting to overturn California’s EV mandates; the day earlier than, for deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles.
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Not to say her attempt to bankrupt Trump to keep him from working in 2024.
Of course, James spent her years as NYC’s public advocate submitting countless Hail-Mary lawsuits, too; none of it did a lot for normal New Yorkers, however it raised her profile enough to let her grab the AG job after scandal pressured out Eric Schneiderman.
But, sorry: Endless pandering to the Democratic Party’s left-wing base isn’t a critical statewide winner even in New York; the press corps (most of which is an element of that base) might eat it up, however most voters received’t.
They nonetheless suppose public servants are alleged to . . . serve the public.
