{"id":7442,"date":"2026-08-26T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:40:20","slug":"hochuls-ban-on-cops-working-with-ice-is-an-attack-on-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7442","title":{"rendered":"Hochul’s ban on cops working with ICE is an attack on public safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Kathy Hochul raced to gaslight New York on Tuesday by falsely claiming her new anti-ICE law will boost public safety, when it will do the reverse.<\/p>\n

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Yes: the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act undermines<\/em> public safety \u2014 and good for her GOP gubernatorial rival, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, for standing up to her on it.<\/p>\n

The law \u201censures that law enforcement resources are directed toward local public safety priorities,\u201d fibbed a Hochul press release, also claiming it\u2019ll \u201ckeep New Yorkers safe from federal overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utter baloney. The measure bars cops from cooperating with federal agents who are working primarily to get criminals <\/em>off the streets and out of the country.<\/p>\n

It also bans the use of local jails to temporarily hold illegal immigrants for ICE.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny police department or sheriff\u2019s office that disobeys this law,\u201d huffed Hochul, \u201cwill face legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does shielding criminals boost <\/em>public safety? Well, \u201cwe need local police focused on thwarting local crimes,\u201d claims the gov.<\/p>\n

Please. Foreign criminals roaming the streets increase <\/em>\u201clocal crimes.\u201d <\/p>\n

The gov pretends that letting cops work with federal law-enforcers diverts resources and will somehow feed federal \u201coverreach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madness: Blocking cooperation can only force ICE to conduct more broad <\/em>operations, burdening immigrant communities and obliging local cops to handle agents\u2019 standoffs with the inevitable lefty \u201cactivists\u201d trying to block enforcement. <\/p>\n

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Her reasoning is beyond flimsy: Of 53 counties that had no formal 287(g) agreements to cooperate with the feds, she argues, \u201cseven are among the 25 safest communities in America, demonstrating that 287(g) agreements are non-essential to improving safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

That demonstrates nothing:<\/em> Illegal-immigrant criminals tend to shun <\/em>already-safe areas, so neither ICE nor any agreements are needed there.<\/p>\n

The Long Island towns plagued by violent migrant gangs like MS-13 absolutely need <\/em>local-federal cooperation.<\/p>\n

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Which is why Blakeman has eagerly worked with ICE: \u201cWe 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,\u201d he\u2019s noted. \u00a0<\/p>\n

By contrast, the Department of Homeland Security reported in December that New York has released 7,000 illegal migrant criminals without notifying ICE since President Donald Trump took office. Feel safer yet?<\/p>\n

Hochul is also testing the limits of the Constitution, which gives federal law priority over state law; banning <\/em>cooperation could count as obstruction.<\/p>\n

No New Yorker should fall for Hochul\u2019s gaslighting: Her anti-ICE law is an attack <\/em>on public safety.<\/p>\n

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