The status of the city - "refuge" does not guarantee the safety of illegal immigrants in New York

From the first days of the Donald Trump presidency, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he would protect city residents from the aggressive actions of the immigration authorities "no matter where they come from and their immigration status."

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The government has intensified its attacks, threatening "shelter" cities that protect illegal immigrants with cuts in federal funding if local law enforcement does not cooperate with immigration authorities. At the same time, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) continued to detain illegal immigrants throughout the country, including asylum cities, in 2017, the number of immigration arrests increased by 41% compared to the previous year, reports The New York Times.

In New York, where 500 000 lives in illegal immigrants, ICE also makes arrests.

“Creating a bubble around the city that ICE cannot penetrate is impossible. People think that in a city of “sanctuary” they can walk freely and without fear. But that’s not true,” said Camille Mackler, director of the activist group New York Immigration Coalition.

Representatives of the ICE appeared in office buildings in New York, knocking at people's homes, and even entered the Spanish-speaking Manhattan church.

The New York Police Department does not usually transmit information about detainees to ICE, but through bureaucratic procedures the immigration authorities still get a hint: information about any arrest is sent to the state authorities who transfer it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and after that ICE has access to it.

The number of immigration arrests of residents of New York who have no criminal record has increased more than three times after taking office as President Trump. Of the 2976 immigration arrests in 2017, 899 people had no previous criminal record, compared to 250 people from 1762 arrests in 2016. Under the Barack Obama administration, illegal immigrants without a criminal record were not a priority for deportation.

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