{"id":202430,"date":"2026-04-19T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:15:08","slug":"reyes-hochuls-immigration-proposal-appeals-to-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202430\/","title":{"rendered":"Reyes: Hochul\u2019s immigration proposal appeals to the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some progressive lawmakers aren\u2019t taking too kindly to Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s latest proposal to restrict local police from assisting federal immigration officers. The governor wants to allow municipalities<\/a> to assist U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement when there\u2019s probable cause someone committed a crime, but Assembly Member Karines Reyes said that plan would actually be worse for immigrant New Yorkers than current law \u2013 and could stand to hurt her in this year\u2019s gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t let cops be judge, jury and executioner,\u201d Reyes told City & State on Friday during state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s reception kicking off the annual Somos conference in Albany. \u201cWe want to make sure that law enforcement isn\u2019t able to act on their own prejudices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conference focused on New York\u2019s Latino population provides a key opportunity for lawmakers and stakeholders to strategize, but the stakes are even higher as Hochul and legislative leaders make progress on months-long talks to counter ICE under the Trump administration. Reyes said if the governor\u2019s proposal becomes law, immigrants will remember it at the ballot box this November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the governor and those who advise her need to refocus on who the electorate is and the message they\u2019re sending,\u201d Reyes said, later adding, \u201cThe governor can win overwhelmingly if she\u2019s right on these issues, or she can win with a much narrower margin if she continues to appeal to Republican talking points.\u201dHochul won her 2022 election against now-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin by a mere 6 points. Hochul\u2019s office did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also indicated concern this week about allowing police to cite probable cause as a reason to work with ICE. \u201cProbable cause to commit a crime being committed, that\u2019s such an open and general term,\u201d he told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

Reyes, who sponsors the New York For All Act, which would completely ban municipalities from any collaboration with ICE, said she knows Hochul\u2019s heart is in the right place to do something, but she hopes the executive remains open to conversations. And she hopes Somos will be\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to advocate for what is the least harmful measure for our community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s proposal would also permit police to assist ICE with criminal convictions, but details remain unclear, since she has not made specific legislative language public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At DiNapoli\u2019s reception, state Attorney General Letitia James said the Democratic conference comes as the Latino community is hurting, and the party must act to oppose the mass deportation efforts backed by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you recognize the threats this administration poses to all of us, we not only have to come to Albany to party, but we\u2019ve got to come to Albany to get to work,\u201d she told the crowd.<\/p>\n

Afterward, James told City & State she supports and endorses Hochul\u2019s proposal, but refused to weigh in on the inclusion of probable cause \u2013 leaving negotiations to legislative leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever they negotiate, I have to defend,\u201d she said. Of ongoing talks, James added: \u201cWe are at the table, we are discussing all of the proposals and we are ensuring that it passes constitutional muster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some progressive lawmakers aren\u2019t taking too kindly to Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s latest proposal to restrict local police from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3066,2301,9198,426,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-202430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-heard-around-town","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","11":"tag-kathy-hochul","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202430","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=202430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}