New York will curb cooperation between federal immigration agents and local law enforcement agencies as Democrats try to blunt the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
Final state budget language set to be approved by lawmakers Thursday includes a broad immigration protection package backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D). The package imposes new guardrails around immigration enforcement in the Empire State by federal agencies and comes despite Border Czar Tom Homan’s promise to flood New York with immigration agents if the state puts up the roadblocks.
Under the state’s spending plan, Democrats will restrict agreements under a provision known as 287(g), which ...