{"id":560103,"date":"2026-02-02T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/560103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:56:13","slug":"does-hochul-want-to-bring-anti-ice-minneapolis-chaos-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/560103\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Hochul want to bring anti-ICE Minneapolis chaos to New York?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lack of cooperation between local police and ICE agents has fueled utter chaos and violence in Minneapolis. So what does Gov. Kathy Hochul do? <\/p>\n

You guessed it: She calls for less cooperation in New York. Is she trying to bring Minneapolis chaos here?<\/p>\n

Hochul officially joined the anti-ICE resistance last week with a package of proposals, including one to end agreements between local and federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

At the least, her move was meant to score points with New York\u2019s hard left<\/a> and ding her GOP gubernatorial opponent, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who backs such agreements \u2014 even as she claims she\u2019s not playing politics.<\/p>\n

The agreements \u2014 legalized by a federal program known as 287(g) that was developed as part of President Bill Clinton\u2019s 1996 immigration-reform law and used extensively by the Obama administration \u2014 empowers local cops to initiate immigration enforcement actions with noncitizens in jails and prisons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One type of deal, called a \u201ctask force\u201d agreement, can also grant police limited immigration authority \u2014 with ICE oversight \u2014 during routine duties, such as during a DUI stop.<\/p>\n

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In other words, it lets police help ICE get bad guys out of local neighborhoods \u2014 an entirely appropriate role for local cops, and one that would avoid dangerous, uncontrolled attempts to apprehend criminal illegal immigrants on the streets, which can spark resistance from anti-ICE radicals. <\/p>\n

The system has worked well in Blakeman\u2019s Nassau and the other four counties that have made such deals; none has seen any Minnesota-style chaos. <\/p>\n

If the gov is truly worried about conflicts in the future, she can look to bar task force agreements.<\/p>\n

But she\u2019s going farther, in almost a conscious effort force ICE to bring in large numbers of agents needed to hunt down and apprehend the criminals without the help of local police \u2014 and thus make Minneapolis-style conflicts with the public more likely.<\/p>\n

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To further prevent that, she should be encouraging counties and municipalities to honor immigration detainers and transfer lawbreaking illegal immigrants to ICE custody.<\/p>\n

Last week, border czar Tom Homan, who was sent to tamp down the chaos in Minneapolis<\/a>, made clear that ICE doesn\u2019t want or need police to carry out immigration-law enforcement.<\/p>\n

It just needs the criminals to be handed over in the safety and security of a jail or prison.<\/p>\n

If you still doubt Hochul isn\u2019t playing politics, listen to her own rhetoric: She invoked the Founding Fathers, compared President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown to King George\u2019s tyranny and sought to bar ICE from people\u2019s homes without a warrant even though that\u2019s already the case.<\/p>\n

In one unhinged moment, she ranted that people are being \u201crounded up just because of the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, and her supposedly \u201cnonpolitical\u201d measure sunsets in 2029.<\/p>\n

No, this is a clear shot at Blakeman, and a move to safeguard her left flank against a primary challenge from Lieutenant Governor Anthony Delgado and his radical Working Families Party allies.<\/p>\n

If Hochul truly wants to keep New York calm, she should be encouraging localities to honor immigration detainers and transfer lawbreaking illegal immigrants directly to ICE.<\/p>\n

But if she plays politics instead and it leads violence, she\u2019ll own a major part of the blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lack of cooperation between local police and ICE agents has fueled utter chaos and violence in Minneapolis.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":560104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,22807,7033,4691,5410,16090,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-560103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bruce-blakeman","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-illegal-immigrants","14":"tag-kathy-hochul","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115999026969569483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}