Via BizPacReview:
A U.S. Attorney in New York accused Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of “legislating obstruction” with a law that bans police from sharing Department of Motor Vehicles information with federal immigration agencies. New York’s Green Light Law was passed last year allowing a driver’s license to anyone without legal immigration status, and now the approved 2020 budget has added an eyebrow-raising amendment.
While the Green Light Law prohibited the sharing of DMV information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cuomo’s 2020 budget passed last month as all eyes were on the coronavirus crisis, now makes that sharing of information by any law enforcement officer a class E Felony, according to WKBW.
“Border Patrol for example, working the highway in the middle of the night and pulls over a vehicle, they can’t run the plates to determine who owns that vehicle,” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York J.P. Kennedy told WKBW.
“I think it’s legislating obstruction and it’s very concerning to me,” Kennedy added.
Watch the local news report, via WKBW:
This can only be called insane, and is certain to cost lives and destroy others. In fact New York’s immigration policies and refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement agencies is causing huge problems in the state.
Reeaz Khan, an illegal Guyanese immigrant, is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering Fuertes last month. Fuertes was reportedly found at 2 a.m. near death, before being taken to a hospital where she died from injuries including a broken spine. He has pleaded not guilty.
But the case has cast a spotlight on the dangers of “sanctuary” jurisdictions, which forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities when they issue a detainer — a request that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be alerted of an illegal immigrant’s release from custody so they can be transferred into ICE custody and go through deportation procedures.
ICE revealed it had filed a detainer for Khan in November 2019, when he had been arrested on assault and weapons charges. But crucially, that detainer was ignored and Khan was released onto the streets.
This is but a single example of how New York’s immigration policies are causing an increase in crime in that state.
Seems like Democrats care much more about criminals than they do about the rights and protection of ordinary law abiding citizens.
Time for American citizens to wake up, and put a stop to the Democrats reign of terror come November.
More information on this topic:
De Blasio ignoring ICE pleas for cooperation on illegal immigrant criminals, official says
Murders in NYC surge for second week in a row as coronavirus lockdown continues
ICE Catches Illegal Alien Accused Of Child Rape After NYC Authorities Released Him From Custody
