{"id":201670,"date":"2026-04-18T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:31:01","slug":"hochul-proposes-legislation-to-strengthen-new-yorkers-protections-from-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201670\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul proposes legislation to strengthen New Yorkers&#8217; protections from ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed legislation to strengthen New Yorkers\u2019 protections from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Her office says the plan is intended to safeguard constitutional rights, limit ICE access to sensitive locations unless there is a judicial warrant, and hold federal immigration officials accountable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/ice-agents-deployed-to-14-airports-as-albany-international-unaffected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS: ICE agents deployed to 14 airports, Albany International unaffected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York prides itself on being the place that immigrants come to build a better life and we will not stand for senseless actions that stand in the way of that promise,\u201d Hochul said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, state, local, and federal law enforcement officers would be prohibited from wearing face coverings to conceal their identities, with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Schools would also be protected as sensitive locations.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would allow New Yorkers to sue federal, state, and local officials under state law for alleged constitutional violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/albany-county-legislature-votes-to-limit-cooperation-with-ice-border-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS: Albany County legislature votes to limit cooperation with ICE, Border Patrol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senator Patricia Fahy (D\u2013Albany) and Assemblymember Tony Simone (D\u2014Manhattan) released the following statement upon news that Governor Hochul supports banning ICE agents&#8217; use of masks or face coverings during civil immigration enforcement, laid out under the MELT (Mandating End of Lawless Tactics) Act:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to see Governor Hochul\u2019s support for our MELT (Mandating End of Lawless Tactics) Act, which prohibits ICE agents from wearing masks during civil immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen armed and masked federal agents operate as a paramilitary secret police force, which included extrajudicial killings of U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (5)<\/p>\n<p>In New York State, we will hold them accountable and put an end to their reign of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed legislation to strengthen New Yorkers\u2019 protections from Immigration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-201670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670","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=201670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}