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Not a single one of the 3,500 New Yorkers caught up in the Adams administration's homeless sweeps from January to September last year were placed in supportive or permanent housing.
Government lawyers defending the effort to deport Khalil told a judge he lacked jurisdiction to stop it because Khalil was flown to Louisiana within hours of being taken into custody.
The arrest, supposed to be banned by a 2020 law, took place a week before a new memo to court officers advised them to step aside if ICE proceeds, sans warrant.
If federal officers try to execute an arrest without a warrant in a courthouse, the February 6 memo states, “UCS uniformed personnel should neither obstruct nor assist in any way.”
Organizers and immigrant rights advocates are teaming up to teach servers, kitchen staffers, restaurant owners, and delivery workers their rights when it comes to dealing with law enforcement.
The new guidance arrives just days before the mayor meets with Trump's deportation czar Tom Homan.
The Sunday rally called on the mayor to rescind a controversial memo Hell Gate revealed last week.
The council's demand for the administration to rescind the guidance comes after Hell Gate reported on the existence of the memo earlier this week.
The memo offers a broad exception for federal immigration enforcement that wasn't in separate instructions issued last month.
The Adams administration has not said how it plans to respond to the Laken Riley Act, which gives federal authorities the right to detain immigrants accused of crimes like petty theft.
