Hochul’s Anti-ICE Crusade: Sanctuary State Stupidity on Steroids
Leave it to New York Governor Kathy Hochul to once again plant her progressive flag firmly in the camp of lawlessness while pretending it’s all about “keeping New Yorkers safe.”
In her latest act of political performative governance, Hochul has rolled out plans to hobble ICE operations through the so-called “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” and related measures. These include banning local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, restricting ICE access to state facilities without warrants, and even empowering New Yorkers to sue ICE agents in state court for alleged rights violations.
This isn’t bold leadership. It’s bald-faced defiance of federal authority wrapped in a rainbow bow of sanctuary virtue-signaling. Hochul is siding squarely against law enforcement—the real kind that enforces actual laws passed by Congress. ICE, as a federal agency, answers to the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes, not the whims of Albany’s governor. Her regulations and “protections” carry all the legal weight of a strongly worded Post-it note. States cannot nullify federal immigration law. The Supremacy Clause isn’t a suggestion. It’s the foundation of our system. Hochul knows this, or at least her lawyers do. This is political theater designed to rally the open-borders base while endangering communities.
Once more, Hochul demonstrates her pattern of undermining law enforcement. Remember when New York became a magnet for chaos under soft-on-crime policies? Now she is extending that philosophy to immigration. Criminal illegal aliens who have already slipped through the system get another layer of protection, while everyday New Yorkers foot the bill in higher crime, strained resources, and eroded trust. Local sheriffs are “mad as hell” and talking lawsuits of their own. They understand what Hochul ignores, that cooperation between local and federal forces removes the worst offenders—those with serious criminal records. Seventy percent of migrants in the crosshairs of ICE have committed crimes – some more serious than others.
The real danger here is incitement. When elected leaders frame ICE as a “rogue” agency engaged in “abuses of power” and “overreach,” they pour gasoline on an already volatile fire. They signal to radicals that federal agents enforcing the law are fair game for harassment, obstruction, and worse. Rhetoric has consequences. Hochul’s words don’t exist in a vacuum—they echo through activist networks and social media, emboldening those who view borders as suggestions and enforcement as oppression.
Look no further than the unhinged protester outside Newark’s Delaney Hall detention facility. In a chilling video, this bearded agitator with protective goggles screamed at ICE agents: “I’ll kill your whole f–king family. Your whole fucking family is dead. Your fucking children, your fucking wife, all dead.” “I see your face, You’re dead.” He was not alone in his venom; similar threats have targeted agents’ mothers and kids across protests.
This is not peaceful dissent. It’s the predictable harvest of demonization. When governors like Hochul paint ICE as Nazi-like villains terrorizing communities, disturbed individuals hear a call to arms. They don’t distinguish between policy disagreement and personal vendettas against agents just doing their sworn duty. Families of these agents now live with real fear because progressive politicians prioritize optics over order.
Satirically speaking, perhaps Hochul should issue “Get Out of Jail Free” cards for anyone storming federal facilities. Or better yet, declare New York a sovereign nation where federal law is optional—like California without the avocado toast budget.
The absurdity writes itself. While Hochul grandstands about “constitutional safeguards,” actual constitutional order crumbles under the weight of selective enforcement. Federal agents don’t need her permission to uphold immigration statutes. They will continue their work, warrants in hand, criminals in tow.
This approach does not protect immigrants; it endangers everyone by fostering lawlessness. Law-abiding citizens, legal residents, and yes, even those seeking asylum properly, suffer when chaos reigns. Public safety requires cooperation, not obstruction. Hochul’s plan is less about shielding New Yorkers and more about shielding her political flank from left-wing primaries.
The federal government must push back firmly. Courts should swiftly affirm supremacy. Congress can clarify consequences for state interference. And voters? They should remember at election time that actions like these are not compassion. They are complicity in chaos, disorder and deadly violence..
Hochul’s anti-ICE jihad reveals a deeper rot — the left’s allergy to enforcement when it conflicts with ideology. Americans deserve borders that mean something and leaders who back those who guard them—not incite mobs against them.
So, there ‘tis.
Once again Larry, you as a conservative ignore the problems that are staring you right in the face. ICE is currently totally out of control. Rather than going after the ‘bad guys’, they are arresting and deporting people with no crimes other than they crossed the border-frequently not even illegally, but as asylum cases. Why are they doing this? It’s because ICE has been given ‘quotas’ that dictate how many people they need to arrest-obviously a terrible way to run a law enforcement agency. And the protesters outside detention facilities? There is ample evidence that these places have deplorable conditions, which the DHS is attempting to keep closed to oversight. The big problem here is how the trump government is behaving in this matter, not the typical Republican response that you ramble on about which is “look over here on the left, so you ignore the huge problem that the right is responsible for”. Typical of the BS that you spout on a daily basis..
Larry knows better than to rush to judgement before the facts are in. When he faces left, though, he tends to throw prudence to the wind becoming judge, jury, and executioner with a rush to judgement not seen since they put Jesus on the cross. (OK, that’s a bit over the top too, just like Larry).
What we know is the guy said it, but who the guy is we don’t yet know. Neither does Larry who assumes too much without facts in evidence. There are pro-Maga’s in the crowd, anti-ICE in the crowd, and, by now, outside agitators from both sides no doubt.
Bad actor Todd Blanche, Trump’s biased Attorney General and previous Trump defending lawyer and, himself, the top PDF.file protector holding back 50% of the files, over three million of them, said of the protests: Fuck Around and Find Out, his poor attempt to deescalate the situation. That’s our AG talking so Horist looks pale in comparison and the protestor looks about the same — both the protestor and Blanche are out of line. Blanche was supposed to be the adult in the room though.
Will they offer cash or pardons to this alleged criminal proposing to attack police. It seems as weaponized as the 1/6 actually cop beatings. I mean it’s not 1/6 after all, but hey, there’s cash for crime now so why not?
While the ICE debate over cruel and unusual punishment, murder, and assaults continues, this situation at Delany in NJ can be easily tamped down by being transparent as to the conditions at the facility. What are the Larry’s hiding there?
Until then, legally protest, follow the rule of law, and arrest all violators. ICE sucks at that, especially in the real world with real people. They don’t do that much better in their world of disappearing brown people in America with multiple shootings and murders on their watch.
The suicide level at these facilities is way to high, if it’s even suicide. The transparency is abysmal so we really don’t know anything except the numbers are high, like 20% of all deaths are supposed suicides and the deaths are too high to begin with.
NJ has replaced ICE security for the protests by NJSP; a protest zone has been set up to keep folks apart, a curfew has been placed around the facility by Newark’s mayor who has his own beef being beat up by ICE at the facility. NJ, and the protestors, just ask to get inside for some transparency on the conditions where it is alleged the water is undrinkable, the foot rotted with maggots, the cells torturously too cramped, all sorts of abuses. So let’s pop the hood and look at the engine on this baby. Got a problem with that? OK, then we will protest. And when you send your people in, things may get testy. You have gassed our public servants trying to observe, you have arrested them for nothing, the testy part goes both ways and citizens are the lowest rung on the receiving end of ICE testiness where shootings have occurred, in the face, in the back, even for unarmed women and nurses.
It’s a mess, but Larry, making judgements based on your presumptions is wrong, downright inciteful, and you should know it. Unlike you, we in NJ believe in State’s Rights and do not want Federal forces and Federal privately owned jails-for-profit in our State: PERIOD. Our form of limited government says keep the Federal Government out of here. And even more so for Federally sponsored private police forces and jails.