A U.S. district judge has ruled that NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration must comply with a subpoena from federal immigration authorities that seeks information about residents of a homeless shelter in the Bronx.
On Friday, District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the city administration must hand over information pursuant to the subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE claimed it was investigating whether any residents at the facility were subject to deportation. The agency said a special master would oversee the investigation and limit the information shared with ICE.
ICE claimed it was investigating whether any residents at the facility were subject to deportation.
Isn’t this the opposite of how this should work? Instead of ‘we want to see everything to confirm if any of these people on our list are on your list’ shouldn’t it be ‘we have reason to believe this specific person is on your list, give us their information from your list’
If you read the court decision it’s clear that ICE kind of IS trying to do that. They seem to have reason to believe that there are certain men at a specific shelter who illegally entered the United States that are operating under a false names who have committed one of 8 specific “serious crimes” (murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, assault, grand larceny, burglary, and assault of a law enforcement officer.)
What they want is for NYC to produce the list of males at a certain homeless facility in a certain age range along with their previous or current criminal convictions so they can tie the fake names to the real ones they are looking for.
I’m not sure I agree with what ICE is doing but it’s far less intrusive and reaching than what the headline suggests.
Interesting to note that parts of the decision are redacted and that the unredacted version will be filed under seal.
Well when you act like they’ve acted you forfeit your respectability and any assumption that you’re acting in good faith. So. Until there has been a thorough house cleaning or ideally house demolition nobody anywhere should be cooperating with ICE for any reason. There are reasonable arguments that our society needs law enforcement at some level but there is no rational argument for an unregulated paramilitary force that exists to hunt down minorities and political enemies while completely ignoring actual dangerous immigrants (like Elon Musk).
He should submit it with all of the names redacted.
That’s absolutely what he should do.
So we’ve seen that ICE can ignore court orders with impunity. What happens if NYC does the same thing?
Then we remember how to enforce the law. He’s a damn dirty socialist, after all.
Can’t tell if sarcastic. This is the lemmyverse after all.
But yes, it would seem that selective enforcement is part of the cult mindset.
This is more violation of the constitution. They should need seperate warrants for every individual which needs to have reasons. To be clear each should be a seperate thing with probable cause and sworn affidavids and such.
Give the info they request, in a tar file saved in a 8” floppy disk.
If you’ve worked in government you’d know that all of that hardware is still considered current. Better would be to print a text encoding of an encrypted version of the tarfile and a hand written note with the encryption key.
Punch cards
100mb zip disk
Then the click of death… So much data I have lost to the “click of death”.
Either I didn’t use mine enough for it to happen or I got lucky. Still miss that drive though
They have a lot of those spare now that they no longer need them for weather info to all the air traffic controllers.
“Oh no, seems like we lost them. Maybe there never were any records. Who knows… we certainly don’t.”
That’s what I was thinking too. Just submit a document saying they don’t collect information on the users and be done with it. Trump has proved that people can just disregard the courts and nothing happens.
Ooooh, a “special master”. There are so many, many things wrong with this. Can massa produce a warrant for each person?
