New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed laws providing protections for immigrant New Yorkers. The laws ban law enforcement officers from wearing masks and bar local police statewide from enforcing civil immigration laws. The laws also restrict Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from entering sensitive locations such as churches, schools, and polling places. Individuals are allowed to sue ICE for alleged constitutional violations. Hochul signed the bills in New York City with immigration advocates, faith leaders, and affected families present. The actions follow federal pushback against Hochul and New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill for opposing immigration enforcement. In Newark, detainees at an ICE detention center staged a hunger and labor strike, with unrest and violent clashes occurring outside the facility.
"One law also bars Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from entering so-called “sensitive locations,” such as churches, schools and polling places. Another law allows individuals to sue ICE for alleged constitutional violations. Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bills at state offices in New York City, amid a crowd of immigration advocates, faith leaders and immigrants and families of immigrants that officials said had been affected by ICE arrests."
"Hochul on Friday signed into law a set of sweeping protections for immigrant New Yorkers, including a ban on law enforcement officers wearing masks and a measure barring local police statewide from enforcing civil immigration laws. One law also bars Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from entering so-called “sensitive locations,” such as churches, schools and polling places."
"The action comes as both Hochul and her New Jersey counterpart, Gov. Mikie Sherrill, also a Democrat, face pushback from the Trump administration over their opposition to the immigration enforcement actions in the two states. Detainees at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark have engaged in a weeklong hunger and labor strike over conditions inside the facility, and their freedom."
"Markwayne Mullin, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has repeatedly chastised Sherrill in social media posts, calling her a “sanctuary politician” and criticizing her for allegedly refusing ICE's calls for state police to help manage the protest. Mullin has also threatened to pull Customs and Border Protection agents who process international passengers at Newark airport, and from other so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions."
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