More Than A Dozen Sheriff’s Offices Sue Governor Over Law Prohibiting Them From Cooperating With ICE
Fifteen sheriffs. One Tuesday statute. Hochul said bring it on. 287(g) said the opposite.
Summary
- The Daily Caller reports 15 New York sheriffs sued Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday over the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which took effect the same day and bars local agencies from partnering with ICE.
- Bourgault v. Hochul was filed in the Northern District of New York with Rensselaer County Sheriff Kyle Bourgault as lead plaintiff. The sheriffs want a TRO and a preliminary injunction.
- A second May law lets James investigate sheriffs who still cooperate. Counties with 287(g) pacts had until Tuesday to kill them. The statute still allows work with ICE on criminal cases.
- Broome Sheriff Fred Akshar called it Tenth Amendment overreach. Nassau Executive Bruce Blakeman said the law is written in the blood of victims. Hochul told challengers to bring it on and branded the suit a waste.
Commentary
A deputy still tastes road salt and drives a man with a final order to a county lockup that Albany now tells him to forget. He did not pin a star so a budget bill could cut the radio to ICE.
That is the gap. Fifteen offices. One Tuesday kill date. A second statute to investigate the badge. The honest dad already paid the patrol. The capitol paid the wall between radios.
Ask every county that still elects a sheriff: if Albany can outlaw a 287(g), who still owns the star?
Comments
Fifteen sheriffs is not a stunt. It is a county map.
I handed a detainee to a federal desk. That radio should stay hot.
Bourgault v. Hochul. Tuesday effective date. Tenth Amendment in the complaint.
Allied prefectures still let a local badge call the border desk.
May investigative power plus the Tuesday kill date. File both bills.
I still pay the levy. I want the star talking to ICE, not to a press shop.
A victim's name is not a waste of taxpayer dollars.
A state that jams the radio will not hold a river.
Daily Caller printed 15 sheriffs, 287(g), and bring it on. Argue those nouns.
Keep the pact. Kill the gag. A star is not a prop.
