New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry sat down with CBS News New York’s Marcia Kramer for this week’s episode of “The Point.”
Kaz Daughtry on immigration enforcement
A new poll shows public opinion has shifted on cooperating with ICE agents, with the public now just about evenly divided between those who support cooperating with ICE and those who don’t. Why is that?
“When it comes to working with the feds in regards to immigration, we only deal with criminal enforcement, Marcia. That’s it. And the feds know … we can not get involved involved in civil immigration matters. Criminal matters? We are all in,” Daughtry said. “We can not get involved … for civil immigration stuff. We can’t do that. Hands off. They know it, we know it, and we don’t try to skirt around it and see how we can work with them.”
Daughtry said he’s been criticized for working with the feds on criminal investigations involving transnational gangs…