Monday, May 25, 2020

Gov. Andrew Dumbo Cuomo Makes it a Class E Felony for DMV Employees to Share Info With ICE or DHS

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Makes it a Class E Felony for DMV Employees to Share Info With ICE or DHS: In a terrifying new development, at least for the residents of the state of New York, it is now a felony for a DMV employee to share information with ICE, DHS and other federal immigration enforcement agencies.

Via BizPacReview:

A U.S. Attorney in New York accused Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of “legislating obstruction” with a law that bans police from sharing Department of Motor Vehicles information with federal immigration agencies. New York’s Green Light Law was passed last year allowing a driver’s license to anyone without legal immigration status, and now the approved 2020 budget has added an eyebrow-raising amendment.

While the Green Light Law prohibited the sharing of DMV information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cuomo’s 2020 budget passed last month as all eyes were on the coronavirus crisis, now makes that sharing of information by any law enforcement officer a class E Felony, according to WKBW.

“Border Patrol for example, working the highway in the middle of the night and pulls over a vehicle, they can’t run the plates to determine who owns that vehicle,” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York J.P. Kennedy told WKBW.

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