Federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement visit the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building's U.S. Immigration Court in New York City on July 24, 2025, to detain immigrants and asylum seekers as they report for immigration court proceedings.

Most calls to our office these days concern the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who are indiscriminately rounding up people in the course of President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry. Constituents are demanding the state Legislature do something.

Some of their proposals: barring state law enforcement from cooperating with ICE; banning ICE agents from wearing masks; and requiring ICE agents to wear identifying information. Democrats share the objectives of all three proposals. However, it’s essential that they conform to our existing laws and don’t attempt to solve one set of problems by causing another.

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The “New York for All” bill would ban state law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. But the legislation has a serious flaw: It states that New York law enforcement members will obey........

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