A New York Metropolis Democrat is urging officers to repeal “sanctuary” insurance policies that he believes violate federal regulation and put residents in hurt’s manner.
NYC Council Member Robert Holden informed “Fox & Associates” co-host Brian Kilmeade on Monday that metropolis and state officers are breaking the regulation by defending unlawful immigrants who could also be engaged in legal exercise.
“We’re like shielding [illegal immigrants]. The governors, the Democratic governors and the mayors of those sanctuary cities are shielding criminals and terrorists,” he mentioned.
Holden insisted that federal and state governments should cooperate to crack down on unlawful immigration and forestall future terror plots—referencing a breakdown in communication within the early 2000s that he believes facilitated the 9/11 assaults.
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Democratic NYC Council Member Robert Holden is pushing again towards sanctuary metropolis insurance policies and has floated the thought of charging officers if they don’t adjust to federal regulation. (Fox Information/Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Photographs)
“Now we have terrorists which have gotten throughout the borders. We all know it, and we do not know the place they’re, and naturally, a few of them are in New York Metropolis, and that is very, very harmful,” Holden mentioned.
Holden famous that New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, who has expressed frustrations concerning the migrant disaster, can petition New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and name on the town council to amend sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines.
He additionally referred to as on President-elect Donald Trump to get entangled and threaten Democrats with doable jail time in the event that they violate statutes towards harboring legal non-citizens.
“[President Trump] really may say to the governor and to the mayor, cooperate with us, or we’ll cost you with felonies,” Holden mentioned.
The New York Instances reported that Manuel Castro, New York’s commissioner of migrant affairs, has vowed to not observe “the directions of the federal authorities in instances of mass deportations.”
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Migrants line up exterior a migrant re-ticketing middle at St. Brigid College on E. seventh St. Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, in Manhattan, New York Metropolis. (Barry Williams/New York Each day Information/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)
Castro’s assertion displays a pattern by state and native officers saying they’d reject Trump’s immigration insurance policies. Trump campaigned, partially, on imposing stringent immigration legal guidelines and deporting unlawful immigrants.
Trump’s dedication to closing the border was cemented by his choose for “border czar,” Tom Homan, who served because the performing head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement throughout the first Trump administration.
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“In the event you do not wish to work with us, then get the hell out all the way in which. We will do it,’ Homan not too long ago mentioned.
As a sanctuary metropolis, New York spent $3.7 billion on housing, meals, and different prices within the 2024 fiscal 12 months alone.
Fox Information’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Invoice Melugin contributed to this report.
