With this legislation, all of these existing agreements would be void. The legislation would also prohibit federal agents from using local detention centers for civil immigration enforcement, mass raids or the transportation of detainees, and authorizes New Yorkers to bring state-level civil actions against federal officers who violate their U.S. constitutional rights. Hochul has also proposed legislation to ensure sensitive locations, such as homes, schools and doctors' offices, are protected from civil immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant.
President Donald Trump this week appeared to double down on sending the National Guard to San Francisco. But could that mean troop deployments to other parts of the Bay Area? Officials across the region, including in San Jose, Oakland, Concord and Berkeley, said they've received no indication of the military's imminent arrival in their jurisdictions. As Trump mobilizes troops to Democratic cities across the country in what he says is an effort to fight crime,
"It's not a surprise. Donald Trump and the Trump administration has been coming after so called sanctuary cities since his first term. We had to litigate this issue successfully during Trump 1.0, from his early days of his second administration he has again been doubling down his threats to so called sanctuary cities."