{"id":139636,"date":"2026-02-20T03:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139636\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:57:13","slug":"rally-at-state-capitol-backs-bill-barring-law-enforcement-work-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139636\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally at state Capitol backs bill barring law enforcement work with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB)  \u2014 Advocates rallied Thursday at the Capitol in Albany, once again calling on New York State to try and pass the New York for All Act.<\/p>\n<p>The act would forbid law enforcement from working with ICE in New York State altogether, and advocates cite recent shootings involving ICE agents in Minneapolis that left two anti ICE protestors dead. No one was charged in those cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/nation-world\/trump-administration-increases-ice-authority-to-detain-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: Trump administration increases ICE authority to detain refugees: Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This comes as Governor Kathy Hochul is now pushing the Legislature to pass the Local Cops Local Crimes Act as part of her State of the State agenda. It prohibits law enforcement from being deputized by ICE for federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>However, activists say it does not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/albany-gop-legislators-react-to-ice-limitations-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: Albany GOP legislators react to ICE limitations proposal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd while that does speak to the need to ban 287(g) agreements that deputize law enforcement agencies in the state to act as immigration enforcement, it doesn\u2019t recognize the full need and the full scope of the collusion we\u2019re seeing within the state, which exists outside of those 287(g) agreements,\u201d said Iridian Riccobono Lucas, a campaign coordinator for the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. \u201cThat harms the perception of law enforcement, especially within communities of color and immigrant communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes as more Democratic led states are putting up their own guardrails against immigration enforcement. The Trump administration has called legislation like this a threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/troy-rejects-ice-cooperation-as-rensselaer-county-reaffirms-287g-enforcement-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: Troy rejects ICE cooperation as Rensselaer County reaffirms 287(g) enforcement agreement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Advocates rallied Thursday at the Capitol in Albany, once again calling on New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-139636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}