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NY Atty General: Legal Roadmap and Model Policies for Sanctuary

By immigrationprof

NY AG

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has released what the Attorney General’s Office has described as a “legal roadmap” for local governments to enact sanctuary-type policies with the goal of protecting immigrant communities and enhancing public safety.  The resource contains model laws and policies.

From the press release:  “The model provisions offered by the A.G.’s Civil Rights Bureau clarify that local New York  law enforcement agencies can limit their participation in federal immigration enforcement activities in several ways,  including by: (1) refusing to enforce non-judicial civil immigration warrants issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) or Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), (2) protecting New Yorkers’ Fourth Amendment rights by denying federal requests to hold uncharged individuals in custody more than 48 hours, (3) limiting access of ICE and CBP agents to individuals currently in custody, and (4) limiting information gathering and reporting that will be used exclusively for federal immigration enforcement. The full policy guidance can be found here.”

-JKoh