{"id":330684,"date":"2026-08-27T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330684\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:22:44","slug":"letitia-james-subpoenas-new-york-counties-over-ice-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330684\/","title":{"rendered":"Letitia James subpoenas New York counties over ICE cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York isn\u2019t messing around with its push to tamp down local collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>, the federal agency largely responsible for enacting President Donald Trump\u2019s racist anti-immigrant crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued subpoenas to law enforcement agencies in four counties on Tuesday, the same day a new state law took effect that bans local agreements involving partnering with ICE on civil immigration enforcement. And this all all unfolding as polling shows broad opposition<\/a> to Trump\u2019s crusade.<\/p>\n

Gothamist reported that the subpoenas include Nassau County, where Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is county executive. Blakeman already has established an armed civilian militia<\/a> that has garnered comparisons to Nazi brownshirts and the Ku Klux Klan. So his insistence on working with ICE \u2014 an organization that legal experts<\/a>, historians<\/a> and at least one federal judge<\/a> have also compared to the KKK \u2014 adds to questions about how his views on law enforcement square with multiracial democracy.<\/p>\n

According to Gothamist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rensselaer, Broome and Steuben counties also received subpoenas, a spokesperson for James\u2019 office said. Officials in Broome and Steuben counties have both previously indicated they would end their contracts with ICE.<\/p>\n

A federal judge earlier this month issued a preliminary ruling that rejected a Trump administration challenge to the state\u2019s new restrictions on immigration cooperation. The judge struck down a provision in the state law intended to prevent ICE agents from covering their faces while on duty.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen county sheriffs filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in an effort to overturn the new state law. In a joint statement<\/a>, James and Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, denounced the suit and said it reflected poorly on the sheriffs:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the 12 entities with these agreements have complied without incident, and the vast majority of New York\u2019s law enforcement agencies were already successfully protecting their communities without any collaboration with ICE. The claim that these sheriffs cannot do the same says more about them than it does about the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

They continued:<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJa\u2019han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut\u00a0Blog.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York isn\u2019t messing around with its push to tamp down local collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-330684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330684","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=330684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}