Hochul’s selfish anti-ICE grandstanding is just – Latest News
Consider it a damning bit of indecision: Word out of Albany is that Gov. Kathy Hochul is nonetheless pondering whether or not to push the Legislature to go her anti-ICE proposals straight away, or maintain off to have them develop into law as half of the state funds, months down the road.
Huh? If she actually imagine US Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers are “grabbing people off the street” with out trigger and thinks her “Local Law, Local Cops” legislative bundle is the reply — as she claimed when she revealed it final month — then why would she wait?
Obviously, as a result of it’s really solely about pumping up her own political image in her re-election yr.
Oh, and about bashing her Republican opponent, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman: That’s why her central push is to forestall native law enforcement from working with the feds on immigration in any respect — doing just that has been central to his work combating gangs like MS-13 in Nassau.
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Hence her need to keep milking the “fight” for a number of months by passing it within the state funds.
Yet that brings actual dangers of encouraging her celebration’s extremists: Lefty lawmakers need passage of the “New York For All Act,” which might codify new protections for unlawful immigrants and outlaw even more cooperation between native law enforcement and the feds.
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Progressives additionally wish to create a New York proper to counsel in immigration courtroom — as if any state can impose something on federal courts.
In different phrases, the gov’s not just milking essentially the most fraught national subject for her own personal benefit, she’s enabling the exhausting left to additionally milk to additional its takeover of New York’s Democratic Party.
Hochul claims to be a average, however she’s the left’s very keen confederate as long because it serves her wants.
