Newsweek kind of fucking up the lede here but:
Under Mamdani’s directive, city agencies are required to safeguard personal information and limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
This latest executive order, Mamdani’s 13th since taking office, prohibits sharing information collected for city purposes with federal authorities except when required by law. Each agency has 14 days to appoint a privacy officer and take other steps to ensure compliance.
The order directs the New York Police Department, Department of Correction, Department of Probation, Administration for Children’s Services and Department of Social Services to audit their internal policies on interactions with federal immigration authorities and make any necessary changes public. It also bars ICE agents from entering city-controlled properties such as schools, hospitals, shelters and parking facilities without a judicial warrant.
But are ICE agents likely to understand even well established legal precedent? This is at the point of being guerrilla legality, it’s about using confusion to create delays for them wherever possible.
Why do you think this would confuse them? Their boss will spend about 30 seconds covering this one morning “I know that NYC did an Executive Order to keep us out of public spaces (room chuckles) but that doesn’t carry any legal authority. Ignore it.”
I mean they seemingly ignore most other laws so even if this Executive Orders was enforceable, and it’s not, what makes you think they wouldn’t ignore this as well?
Maybe MAGA will ignore it, but at least you are forcing them to break an actual law, which you can now hold against them. Up until now, we’ve been expecting them to behave better because it the right thing to do, and they don’t care about that, of course.
Now we can expect them to behave better because it’s an actual law that we can punish them with. Mamdani has issued the Executive Order, I assume he is willing to enforce it.
Just because Dems in the past have done nothing to stop MAGA, doesn’t mean the future Democrats are going to be just as cowardly. The new Dems coming into office are angry, determined, and motivated. They are NOT going to behave the same as the cowardly weaklings from the past.
Once we get past the Midterms, Dems should eliminate the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries, and elect Congressional leaders who WANT to fight for America and it’s citizens.
Yeah, I thought of that, but it would be just as easy for someone at the building to be like “I know your boss probably said you can just bust in here, but that’s not how the law works. You still need a warrant.”