It's time to make this city a sanctuary for law-abiding New Yorkers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% :ICE needs a higher headcount to keep up with this tremendous influx of immigration.
55% : No matter who's in the White House, ICE agents must be allowed to enter our jails and courthouses and work with local law enforcement.
54% : That has to include US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
49% : ICE in New York City was typically processing about 100 cases a day not long ago.
39% : And city and state law still prohibit ICE from making arrests without a judicial warrant in jails and courthouses.
36% : Most of my City Council colleagues refused even to meet with ICE under the Trump administration.
36% : The Department of Homeland Security and ICE were created in the wake of 9/11 when we realized how vulnerable we were.
36% : She and her staff explained that the lion's share of illicit drugs pouring into our country is smuggled through the southern border.
17% : It's an added strain on our crumbling infrastructure, social services, law enforcement and justice system.

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