Posted on 05/25/2020 8:00:47 PM PDT by bitt
While police in New York have been enforcing social distancing and stay-at-home orders in the last few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, the state effectively worked to “criminalize” part of their jobs.
A U.S. Attorney in New York accused Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of “legislating obstruction” with a law that bans police from sharing Department of Motor Vehicles information with federal immigration agencies. New York’s Green Light Law was passed last year allowing a driver’s license to anyone without legal immigration status, and now the approved 2020 budget has added an eyebrow-raising amendment.
While the Green Light Law prohibited the sharing of DMV information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cuomo’s 2020 budget passed last month as all eyes were on the coronavirus crisis, now makes that sharing of information by any law enforcement officer a class E Felony, according to WKBW.
“Border Patrol for example, working the highway in the middle of the night and pulls over a vehicle, they can’t run the plates to determine who owns that vehicle,” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York J.P. Kennedy told WKBW.
“I think it’s legislating obstruction and it’s very concerning to me,” Kennedy added.
The law was originally criticized for preventing ICE and federal immigration authorities from doing their jobs, as it required that the state’s DMV commissioner “shall not disclose or make accessible in any manner records or information” from the DMV to “any agency that primarily enforces immigration law.”
Republican state legislators earlier this year demanded that the law, which was approved last June and took effect in December 2019, be repealed. Washington County, New York Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy slammed the law on Fox News back in February.
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Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo gives aid and comfort to the enemy. The Constitution has a word for that.
ZERO taxpayer dollars to any blue state. Why should sane states pay for their screwups? The electorate will remain the same if bailouts are given. People have to realize the error of their ways. It happens here in NJ until things get better then the fools go back to the rats. Can’t change stupid.
Can law enforcement in another state query NY records? If so, ICE could secretly work with another state as a go between.
easy deal here, if states refuse to help ICE then the federal gub mint should not send funding to said state,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwfYkm5ZQd0
Summary: from the movie Amazon Women on the Moon the clip details one way how these spendthrift States can balance their books.
No bail outs!
It sure is. The feds should cut off all state access the NCIC and all federal databases.
Two can play this game.
When the South tried being independent the Union declared war.
Murder is a felony in every state in the nation.
I forgot, EVERYTHING is a felony these days.
a felony is usually any crime punishable by more than a year sentence, usually the difference between local jail time and prison. There are more people in state prison than federal.
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