Queens pols want ICE out of Bulova Corporate Center lot
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Queens officials want an East Elmhurst office complex to stop immigration agents from using its parking lot as a staging area.
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‘People could die’: City, state sue Trump admin over immigration rule change
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New York City and State sued the Trump administration on Monday over a new rule that would force immigrant families to choose between their immigration status and potentially life-saving public programs and assistance.
Read MoreICE spotted making arrests near Woodside playground, angering officials
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Even after federal immigration officials said they had finished large-scale sweeps across the city, reports of federal agents conducting arrests near a Woodside playground continued to pour in throughout the week, angering local officials.
Read MoreState’s ban on ICE agreements goes into effect
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Federal agents can no longer use New York police or jails to help detain immigrants after two new laws banning local municipalities from cooperating with federal immigration agents went into effect.
Read MoreState to help fund legal services for immigrant kids after Trump cuts program
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The state is putting up more than $7 million to pay for legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigration court after the Trump administration ended its contract with legal services providers, leaving 1,400 children in New York to represent themselves in deportation cases, officials announced on Wednesday.
Read More‘Coming after all of us’: Advocates, elected officials protest against ICE activity in Queens
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As federal immigration officers have been spotted with increasing frequency in Queens, local officials on Monday told their constituents to prepare themselves in the event that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempt to arrest them or their neighbors.
Read MoreJudge kills state law that prohibits ICE from wearing masks
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New York State can’t tell Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to take off their masks, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Read MoreQueens councilmember breaks with progressives on ICE abolition letter
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Only a single member of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus has not signed on to a popular letter calling on Democratic leadership to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreQueens pols call on Dem leadership to push to abolish ICE
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More than a dozen Queens lawmakers signed on to a letter with around 100 other elected officials calling on federal Democrats to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreQueens rep introduces bill to keep migrants out of courthouses and away from feds
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A Queens representative proposed legislation that would give migrants the option to attend legally-mandated court appearances virtually and potentially avoid arrest by federal immigration officers. But the bill faces an uphill climb in the conservative legislature.
Read MoreDepartment of Homeland Security sued for ‘illegal’ stops and arrests in New York
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Federal immigration agents have conducted thousands of unconstitutional stops and arrests on New Yorkers over the last year, targeting people based solely on race and without any probable cause, a new class action lawsuit claims.
Read MorePilots dead and dozens injured after plane crashes into firetruck on LaGuardia tarmac
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Two airline pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured after a plane crashed into a firetruck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.
Read MoreICE detainer requests to NYC jails more than doubled under Trump
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The number of times Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents asked the Department of Correction to give them a heads up before a detainee’s release so that they could make an arrest more than doubled during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, compared to the year prior.
Read MoreQueens reps blast ICE but won’t call for its abolition
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Two of Queens’ longest-serving members of Congress sharply criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on Thursday, but stopped short of joining fellow Democrats calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreNY police couldn’t partner with ICE under gov’s new proposal
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Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday said that she would propose legislation that would prevent local police in New York from partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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