{"id":216074,"date":"2026-04-30T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:22:07","slug":"ny-set-to-pass-most-extreme-sanctuary-policies-as-hochul-albany-dems-near-anti-ice-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216074\/","title":{"rendered":"NY set to pass most extreme sanctuary policies as Hochul, Albany Dems near anti-ICE deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY \u2013 New York is set to pass its most extreme sanctuary policies yet \u2013 as Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany Democrats hone in<\/a> on a deal that could impose sweeping bans on cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) confirmed \u201c95%\u201d of an anti-ICE immigration package has been agreed upon between Hochul and state legislators<\/a> as part of ongoing state budget talks \u2013 including etching New York\u2019s first statewide sanctuary law restricting how law enforcement can interact with immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all want to deal with the aggressiveness, or the over-aggressiveness, let\u2019s say, of ICE. But we also understand that there should always be due process,\u201d Heastie told reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders are forging ahead with legislation to put statewide sanctuary policies on New York\u2019s books for the first time. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

Narrow, but still crucial, details about how the law would function are still being hammered out.<\/p>\n

Hochul recently revealed that she had agreed with the legislature\u2019s request to ramp up her initial anti-ICE proposal<\/a>, which she had released in January amid heightened fury against President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a> in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say that ICE has no reason to be involved in any civil enforcement,\u201d Hochul said last week.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s original proposal had included:<\/p>\n

Banning local governments, like Nassau County, from signing formal \u201c287-g\u201d agreements with ICE to deputize officers and keep detainees in local jails on federal immigration charges.<\/p>\n

An experimental new legal tool aimed at\u00a0 giving New Yorkers the ability to sue federal agents in state court for a violation of their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

Restricting access to ICE from \u201csensitive\u201d locations like schools, hospitals and churches.<\/p>\n

Since then, the legislature has largely bullied the governor into adding:<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told reporters an immigration package was \u201c95%\u201d agreed upon, Wednesday. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n

Explicit \u201csanctuary\u201d protections barring local law enforcement from communicating with federal immigration authorities unless they suspect there\u2019s probable cause someone committed a misdemeanor or felony.<\/p>\n

Many new additional \u201csensitive\u201d locations to her list, including virtually all public spaces like parks and allowing private businesses to refuse entry to federal agents.<\/p>\n

Barring ICE agents from wearing masks.<\/p>\n

ICE agents would be barred from wearing masks in New York, under the newest iteration of the proposal, Hochul revealed earlier this month. Adam Gray for New York Post<\/p>\n

Albany Dems, however, quickly panned the part of Hochul\u2019s plan allowing local cops to contact ICE in cases with probable cause \u2014 and it appears she might be backing down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat definitely has been out,\u201d Heastie said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Critics \u2014 including the elected sheriffs she wants to restrict from working with ICE \u2014 have blasted Hochul for caving to the left, claiming she hasn\u2019t engaged with them in crafting her proposal.<\/p>\n

Local law enforcement, including the New York State Sheriffs Association, is opposed to the new immigration measures. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proposed ban on communicating or cooperating with an important unit of federal law enforcement would be a huge step backward and would be detrimental to the safety of the public in areas way beyond immigration issues,\u201d the New York State Sheriffs\u2019 Association wrote in a statement this week.<\/p>\n

Turning New York\u2019s sanctuary policy into law could create confusing grey areas and would harm the progress made after the 9\/11 terror attacks to encourage branches of law enforcement to be less \u201csiloed\u201d and collaborate more, critics argued.<\/p>\n

Hochul still maintains that federal law enforcement will still be able to go after hardcore criminals like human traffickers and drug rings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll work with DEA. We\u2019ll work with FBI. We always have,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 New York is set to pass its most extreme sanctuary policies yet \u2013 as Gov. Kathy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,19675,7739,10691,2301,426,57,9,24,55,54,17566,18571,56,10227,58],"class_list":["post-216074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-andrea-stewart-cousins","tag-budget","tag-carl-heastie","tag-immigration","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-state-assembly","tag-new-york-state-senate","tag-ny","tag-sanctuary-cities","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216074","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=216074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}