Amid fear of Trump mass deportations, NYPD memo reminds officers their job is not to help ICE

In anticipation of President Trump’s promises to contented mass deportations instantly aft taking office, the NYPD issued an interior memo reminding cops of existing laws blocking them from lending a manus to national migration authorities. 

While the politician has publically declined to answer whether helium volition cooperate with national migration raids connected New York, the NYPD memo is the latest successful a flurry of behind-the-scenes enactment to punctual metropolis unit of laws blocking practice with national migration authorities.

The interior operations order, issued by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch connected Saturday, reminded cops they can’t prosecute oregon assistance with migration enforcement oregon let NYPD resources to beryllium utilized for that purpose, either. 

“The information that a idiosyncratic is contiguous successful the United States without lawful authorization is simply a civilian matter, not a crime,” Tisch wrote.

The Trump medication announced connected Tuesday that agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection could make arrests astatine oregon adjacent “sensitive” locations similar churches and schools.

That announcement and the slew of enforcement orders targeted astatine migration person sparked fearfulness among immigrants and advocates. Those included an enforcement bid seeking to extremity Constitutional close to birthright citizenship.

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The memo, going into detail, said that constabulary officers cannot interaction the feds to archer them wherever individuals are located, cannot detain them and cannot usage constabulary section facilities to assistance ICE.

Officers who brushwood ICE conducting migration raids indispensable pass the Operations Division of the NYPD, who volition past scope retired to work chiefs and the Legal Bureau. The Operations Division was besides told to show for national migration enforcement successful the city. 

Even if national migration officials person a warrant, cops cannot merchandise anyone from custody without authorization from the metropolis lawyers and the officers’ operations command.

The NYPD memo comes amid a rapidly changing situation with Trump moving rapidly to present connected his run committedness to region unsafe immigrants from the state and halt the travel of migrants crossed the confederate border.

Asked astir his presumption Tuesday, Adams said helium has agreed with Trump to not publically disparage the president.

“We’re not going to hold connected everything, but those areas that we disagree, I’m going to personally stock with [Trump], and helium has fixed maine an accidental to pass with him straight connected issues we disagree, and I respect that,” Adams said during his play property briefing.

The NYPD memo besides comes arsenic Trump has directed the Justice Department to look astatine immoderate section efforts to artifact migration enforcement.

The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs besides issued a memo successful the lead-up to Trump’s presidency reminding each metropolis agencies of sanctuary metropolis laws, Rebecca Engel, Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs astatine the bureau said astatine a City Council oversight proceeding past week.

The Law Department besides hosted a briefing earlier this month to springiness wide counsels a refresher connected the city’s laws up of Trump’s expected migration actions.

And New York City’s nationalist school strategy hosted grooming sessions connected the city’s laws this period for principals and administrators, telling unit what to bash if feds petition entree to schoolhouse grounds.