Albany lawmakers said they have new momentum to pass long-proposed legislation that would restrict state and local police from helping with immigration enforcement as demonstrations take place in New York and nationwide after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.
Advocates for the New York for All Act say the political climate has changed amid the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive deportation campaign and public acts of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“ I think what’s different this year is the clarity of the need, the human clarity, the political clarity,” said Assemblymember Catalina Cruz, a Queens Democrat. “Turn the TV on every day, and it’s another kidnapping in our community. It’s another family being torn apart.”…