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Feb 6, 2024, 8:39:10 PM2/6/24
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On 06 Mar 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
news:t0303b$98j$6...@dont-email.me:
> Sounds like a state government problem. If they want to be a
> sanctuary jail hood, fine - let them. They don't get any more federal
> money either.
A top-ranking federal immigration official slammed New York City’s
sanctuary policy status Monday, saying it has prevented city law
enforcement from cooperating with federal authorities in cases where
migrants are identified as suspects in violent crimes.
“We want to assist. We want to help. The problem is, is due to city
policies and state law, the cooperation is no longer afforded between
the NYPD, the law enforcement partners and ICE,” said Kenneth Genalo,
New York City field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. “So unfortunately, a lot of the way we have to do our
intelligence in ICE is the same way that you find out about cases — it’s
through the media. We’re no longer contacted. We’re no longer called.”
Genalo, who spoke Monday morning in Times Square, was flanked by
Republican lawmakers and a Democratic city councilman, Robert Holden of
Queens, seeking to highlight the issue after NYPD officers were beaten
by a group of migrants about a block away on Jan. 27.
That assault — which led to the arrest and release of some but not all
of the suspects — has sparked a broader debate over whether Mayor Adams
should seek to dismantle the city’s laws around being a sanctuary city.
At a news conference later in the day, Adams was asked about the ICE
honcho’s criticism on a lack of engagement from city government on
immigration enforcement matters. Adams said his administration does have
conversations with ICE, but added that “the law is very clear on what I
can do and what I can’t do.”
He then pointed a finger at the City Council, which passed laws in 2014
barring the city from detaining foreign nationals on behalf of the
federal government for deportation purposes.
“This is a conversation for the City Council, that’s their law, that
wasn’t my law,” Adams said of whether he would like to repeal the city’s
sanctuary status designation. “Far too often, we leave bodies of
government off the hook, we should be sitting down asking people to
show: Where do y’all stand on this position?”
Council spokesman Rendy Desamours said that “violence against NYPD
officers and municipal workers doing their jobs, or any New Yorker
generally, is wrong and unacceptable,” but then added that “it’s also
important that government officials provide accurate information to the
public.”
“Existing New York City law allows individuals charged with crimes,
regardless of their immigration status, to go through the legal process
like any other person. City law does not prevent people from facing
federal immigration proceedings,” he said. “Rather, it limits the
involvement of our city agencies in being part of the federal
immigration process to ensure immigrant communities aren’t deterred from
seeking help or reporting crime to city officials out of fear of
deportation due to their immigration status.”
The city’s sanctuary laws and policies prohibit the NYPD from helping
federal immigration authorities with immigration enforcement itself,
but do not necessarily preclude the Police Department from assisting the
feds in criminal cases involving migrants.
Republicans’ criticism over the Big Apple’s sanctuary city status comes
in a presidential election year, and as former President Donald Trump —
who’s facing dozens of criminal charges and is seeking the GOP
nomination — has argued that President Biden should do more to secure
the southern border.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-S.I., Brooklyn), who stood alongside Genalo
on Monday, demanded that the city “resume cooperation with Immigration
and Customs Enforcement to deport individuals who are committing these
dangerous crimes in our city.”
Genalo’s remarks Monday were notable given his high rank in a federal
agency overseen by Biden, a Democrat.
He contended that city officials haven’t been honoring administrative
warrants seeking to detain migrants — and are instead demanding judicial
warrants — a provision of a more recent law enacted under former Mayor
Bill de Blasio. According to Genalo, that isn’t in line with federal
immigration law and has proven counterproductive.
“We don’t get a judicial warrant for these cases,” he said. “We have the
authority to issue the warrants. So I’m willing to work with the mayor’s
office and with the governor’s office to try and get back to the table
to speak about having this situation addressed once again.”
He added that before the city adopted its most recent sanctuary city
laws, ICE had an outpost at Rikers Island that “worked hand in hand”
with the NYPD, but that ended when new laws were enacted under de
Blasio.
“Basically, anyone at that time that was foreign-born was vetted by my
staff, the immigration officers, to determine whether or not they were
amenable to removal procedures. If they were, we took custody of them,”
he said.
Genalo suggested that the situation has improved under Adams and that
“at least we’re dialoguing again,” but that it has a ways to go.
“If they don’t contact us, if you don’t honor the detainers, there is no
way that we can get them immediately,” he said of migrant criminal
suspects. “At that point, we have to go searching for them, and
obviously once they’re released, they can be in the wind, they can be
going to another state or they can be going anywhere.”
Adams’ administration has offered a somewhat mixed message when it comes
to the city’s sanctuary status. While the mayor himself has blamed a
past iteration of the City Council, last week, his chief of staff,
Camille Varlack, said that the city is in fact permitted to work with
the feds when an arrest warrant is issued.
“We are able to participate and engage with and cooperate with law
enforcement agencies on all levels generally. That’s the starting point
for it,” she said. “With respect to the sanctuary law, what it
essentially says is that if they are here for a purpose that is
primarily immigration-related, that’s a different circumstance. So if
the federal authorities are able to get a warrant for the arrest of
these individuals, we are allowed to work with them and participate with
them.”
On Monday, Adams said he supports the concept of deporting migrants who
engage in violent crimes.
“If you assault police officers on the streets, I believe that if you’re
found guilty, the federal government should do its job of deporting that
person. If there should be more collaboration with ICE and others,
that’s something that the Council should deliberate on and make a
determination,” he said. “I cannot use city resources based on existing
law. So I think that’s a question that should be presented to the City
Council. How do they want to move forward on this issue?”
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/05/top-ranking-fed-immigration-offici
al-slams-nycs-sanctuary-status-adams-council/
news:t0303b$98j$6...@dont-email.me:
> Sounds like a state government problem. If they want to be a
> sanctuary jail hood, fine - let them. They don't get any more federal
> money either.
A top-ranking federal immigration official slammed New York City’s
sanctuary policy status Monday, saying it has prevented city law
enforcement from cooperating with federal authorities in cases where
migrants are identified as suspects in violent crimes.
“We want to assist. We want to help. The problem is, is due to city
policies and state law, the cooperation is no longer afforded between
the NYPD, the law enforcement partners and ICE,” said Kenneth Genalo,
New York City field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. “So unfortunately, a lot of the way we have to do our
intelligence in ICE is the same way that you find out about cases — it’s
through the media. We’re no longer contacted. We’re no longer called.”
Genalo, who spoke Monday morning in Times Square, was flanked by
Republican lawmakers and a Democratic city councilman, Robert Holden of
Queens, seeking to highlight the issue after NYPD officers were beaten
by a group of migrants about a block away on Jan. 27.
That assault — which led to the arrest and release of some but not all
of the suspects — has sparked a broader debate over whether Mayor Adams
should seek to dismantle the city’s laws around being a sanctuary city.
At a news conference later in the day, Adams was asked about the ICE
honcho’s criticism on a lack of engagement from city government on
immigration enforcement matters. Adams said his administration does have
conversations with ICE, but added that “the law is very clear on what I
can do and what I can’t do.”
He then pointed a finger at the City Council, which passed laws in 2014
barring the city from detaining foreign nationals on behalf of the
federal government for deportation purposes.
“This is a conversation for the City Council, that’s their law, that
wasn’t my law,” Adams said of whether he would like to repeal the city’s
sanctuary status designation. “Far too often, we leave bodies of
government off the hook, we should be sitting down asking people to
show: Where do y’all stand on this position?”
Council spokesman Rendy Desamours said that “violence against NYPD
officers and municipal workers doing their jobs, or any New Yorker
generally, is wrong and unacceptable,” but then added that “it’s also
important that government officials provide accurate information to the
public.”
“Existing New York City law allows individuals charged with crimes,
regardless of their immigration status, to go through the legal process
like any other person. City law does not prevent people from facing
federal immigration proceedings,” he said. “Rather, it limits the
involvement of our city agencies in being part of the federal
immigration process to ensure immigrant communities aren’t deterred from
seeking help or reporting crime to city officials out of fear of
deportation due to their immigration status.”
The city’s sanctuary laws and policies prohibit the NYPD from helping
federal immigration authorities with immigration enforcement itself,
but do not necessarily preclude the Police Department from assisting the
feds in criminal cases involving migrants.
Republicans’ criticism over the Big Apple’s sanctuary city status comes
in a presidential election year, and as former President Donald Trump —
who’s facing dozens of criminal charges and is seeking the GOP
nomination — has argued that President Biden should do more to secure
the southern border.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-S.I., Brooklyn), who stood alongside Genalo
on Monday, demanded that the city “resume cooperation with Immigration
and Customs Enforcement to deport individuals who are committing these
dangerous crimes in our city.”
Genalo’s remarks Monday were notable given his high rank in a federal
agency overseen by Biden, a Democrat.
He contended that city officials haven’t been honoring administrative
warrants seeking to detain migrants — and are instead demanding judicial
warrants — a provision of a more recent law enacted under former Mayor
Bill de Blasio. According to Genalo, that isn’t in line with federal
immigration law and has proven counterproductive.
“We don’t get a judicial warrant for these cases,” he said. “We have the
authority to issue the warrants. So I’m willing to work with the mayor’s
office and with the governor’s office to try and get back to the table
to speak about having this situation addressed once again.”
He added that before the city adopted its most recent sanctuary city
laws, ICE had an outpost at Rikers Island that “worked hand in hand”
with the NYPD, but that ended when new laws were enacted under de
Blasio.
“Basically, anyone at that time that was foreign-born was vetted by my
staff, the immigration officers, to determine whether or not they were
amenable to removal procedures. If they were, we took custody of them,”
he said.
Genalo suggested that the situation has improved under Adams and that
“at least we’re dialoguing again,” but that it has a ways to go.
“If they don’t contact us, if you don’t honor the detainers, there is no
way that we can get them immediately,” he said of migrant criminal
suspects. “At that point, we have to go searching for them, and
obviously once they’re released, they can be in the wind, they can be
going to another state or they can be going anywhere.”
Adams’ administration has offered a somewhat mixed message when it comes
to the city’s sanctuary status. While the mayor himself has blamed a
past iteration of the City Council, last week, his chief of staff,
Camille Varlack, said that the city is in fact permitted to work with
the feds when an arrest warrant is issued.
“We are able to participate and engage with and cooperate with law
enforcement agencies on all levels generally. That’s the starting point
for it,” she said. “With respect to the sanctuary law, what it
essentially says is that if they are here for a purpose that is
primarily immigration-related, that’s a different circumstance. So if
the federal authorities are able to get a warrant for the arrest of
these individuals, we are allowed to work with them and participate with
them.”
On Monday, Adams said he supports the concept of deporting migrants who
engage in violent crimes.
“If you assault police officers on the streets, I believe that if you’re
found guilty, the federal government should do its job of deporting that
person. If there should be more collaboration with ICE and others,
that’s something that the Council should deliberate on and make a
determination,” he said. “I cannot use city resources based on existing
law. So I think that’s a question that should be presented to the City
Council. How do they want to move forward on this issue?”
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/05/top-ranking-fed-immigration-offici
al-slams-nycs-sanctuary-status-adams-council/
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