Protect New Yorkers From ICE

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ICE is a dangerous, cruel, inept, and lawless, agency and it has no place on our streets. But a growing number of local law enforcement agencies in New York collude with ICE on a regular basis.

For months, President Trump has sent heavily armed federal agents into our communities in New York and across the country. They are smashing car windows, dragging people from their cars, zip-tying children, and attacking our neighbors.

ICE badly wants local law enforcement to carry out its violence and destruction. The agency continues to pressure local law enforcement and local government agencies to search for, arrest, and deport people, and separate families who are part of our New York.

Tell lawmakers:

Keep New York’s state and local resources out of Trump and ICE’s cruelty.

The recipients:

Governor Kathy Hochul

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie

Your Legislative Representatives

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Subject Keep NY’s local resources out of ICE’s cruelty

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Because of ICE’s pressure on local law enforcement, many immigrant New Yorkers live with the fear that living daily life in the open and interacting with government agencies – whether in a routine police traffic stop, attending school, or visiting a public hospital for care – could lead to being torn away from family.

I urge you to pass the New York for All Act, S.2235 (Gounardes) / A.3506 (Reyes). The bill ensures that local resources cannot be diverted to carry out ICE’s cruelty, helps immigrant New Yorkers lead freer lives, preserves state and local resources for community safety, and protects immigrant families.

It does this by prohibiting state and local officers from enforcing federal immigration laws and sharing sensitive information with ICE, and prohibiting ICE from entering non-public areas of state and local property without a judicial warrant. It also ensures that people in custody are given notice of their rights before being interviewed by ICE, and starts the process of limiting ICE access to state information databases.

You should accept no substitutes or watered-down alternatives. We need New York for All, now.

Targeting our communities for violence, chaos, and cruelty is ICE’s priority, not New York’s.

Sincerely,

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Protect New Yorkers From ICE

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