(The Center Square) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is digging in over claims that state police aren’t cooperating with federal immigration agents and criticizing “renegade” county sheriffs who have signed agreements with ICE to detain undocumented migrants.
Hochul told a progressive podcast host on Sunday that New York policy bars state law enforcement officials from cooperating with the mass deportation efforts unless the suspects are being sought on a criminal warrant.
“Now, what we have are some renegade counties in New York because individual counties can sign a pact with ICE, and we have a lot of them, some on Long Island, some in upstate New York, where there’s different political views,” she said on the David Pakman Show. “They are cooperating with their local police departments, but what I control is the state police, and they will not cooperate in that.”…