New York — President Donald Trump’s border czar threatened to “ Flooding the area “With immigration agents if New York passes bills to limit local coordination with the federal government’s crackdown.
New York appears ready to do so anyway.
“I don’t take threats well,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday. “We will pass what we think is important to protect New Yorkers.”
Tensions are rising as Democrats try to put it in place Handrail On the Trump administration’s immigration agenda in the wake of Republicans’ often chaotic and violent deportation efforts.
The proposals, which have not yet been finalized, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from entering into agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or serving as civilian immigration agents, and prohibit ICE from entering sensitive locations such as schools or hospitals without a warrant.
The governor, a Democrat, is also moving to ban federal, state and local law enforcement from wearing masks on duty, along with a measure that creates a path for people to sue ICE officers.
Hochul, who announced Thursday that she had reached an agreement with legislative leaders to include immigration proposals in the state budget, said the state “will help you go after hardened, violent criminals and the worst of the worst.”
“It doesn’t limit our ability to help in criminal situations, and I want people to understand that, but my God, it’s gone too far,” she said.
“Of course we’re going to increase the workforce a lot” if New York goes ahead with the proposals, Homan told Fox News this week.
He added: “They can put up all the barriers they want, but we will do the job.”
Homan and Hochul met at the New York State Capitol earlier this year, and although the meeting was private, the governor told reporters Thursday that Homan told her that “the era of military surges is over.”
Bruce Blackman, the Republican candidate for governor, criticized the governor’s proposals, saying they were Long Island County’s proposals deal With ICE it succeeded in removing “bad people from our society” and resulted in organized immigration enforcement efforts.