Pass the New York for All Act
Fight back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda and protect immigrant communities in New York.
All New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status or how long they have lived here, want the same basic things: to participate in their communities, provide for their family, and live without fear. Yet President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s anti-immigrant agenda is making this impossible.
The state must now take action to protect our immigrant neighbors and ensure that our tax dollars are not used to help the Trump administration separate families, raid work places, and deport our neighbors.
The New York for All Act will prohibit state and local resources from being used to carry out a cruel and inhumane federal deportation agenda. We must stop state and local law enforcement and government agencies from colluding with ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and all federal agencies conducting civil immigration enforcement.
Dalila's Story
In 2018, Dalila Yeend spent several weeks separated from her children, locked up in federal immigration detention after she was stopped by police for rolling through a stop sign. Listen to her story.
The Problem
Trump’s ICE is dividing communities, abducting immigrants, and separating families. ICE and CBP are carrying out large-scale immigration raids funded by hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. Across New York, ICE — now the nation’s largest and most well-funded federal law enforcement agency — is deputizing local law enforcement and government agencies to act as deportation agents. This collusion weaponizes state public resources against our neighbors instead of keeping our communities safe. When local agencies and law enforcement conspire with ICE, New Yorkers lose trust in our government. It becomes dangerous for people to interact with public institutions — whether at a traffic stop, calling emergency services, attending school, going to work, or going to the doctor — for fear it will lead to detention and deportation. New York cannot continue to be complicit.
The Solution
New York must meet this moment by standing up for our immigrant neighbors and refusing to participate in Trump’s cruel, politicized deportation agenda. The New York for All Act will protect immigrant New Yorkers, keep families together, and preserve state and local resources to uphold the state’s public safety priorities. The New York for All Act broadly prohibits state and local officers from enforcing federal immigration laws, funneling people into ICE custody, and sharing sensitive information with federal immigration agents. It also ensures that people in custody are informed of their rights before being interviewed by ICE. Finally, it prohibits ICE and CBP from entering non-public areas of state and local property without a judicial warrant and begins the process of limiting their access to state information databases.
Why We Need New York For All
ICE Is Increasingly Conspiring With Local Law Enforcement.
Trump is rapidly expanding the 287(g) program in New York, with more and more counties agreeing to turn state and local police into arms of ICE and CBP. The New York for All Act would end these contracts and other informal collusion to ensure that local agencies are not turned into deputized federal immigration agents.
Communities that refuse to conspire with ICE are safer.
Policies that entangle local law enforcement with federal immigration enforcement can drive survivors of violence and people in emergency situations away from calling for help or even trusting their neighbors. This makes everyone less safe. In fact, data shows that crime is lower in places where officials do not divert time and resources to a hostile immigration agenda. Ensuring that every person in our state can seek help and access these services without fear is critical to the safety and well-being of all New Yorkers.
Protecting immigrants strengthens New York’s economy.
The scale and severity of immigration raids have already had chilling implications across key industries in our state. Ninety-two percent of construction firms are struggling to fill summer work, and New York’s small farmers have signaled that they have begun to feel the impact of immigration raids. In 2023, immigrant New Yorkers contributed $74.8 billion in taxes and constituted $160.5 billion dollars in spending power. Data also shows that household income is higher, and poverty rates are lower in areas where officials refuse to conspire with ICE. When residents feel safe in their communities, they participate more in the local economy, and all of us thrive.
Other states have passed legislation to keep local resources out of federal immigration enforcement.
New York should join the growing number of states that prohibit collusion with federal immigration enforcement. New Jersey, Washington, Illinois, and California already have state-wide sanctuary policies that have prevented thousands of cruel, unnecessary detentions, deportations, and family separations. New York City and other local jurisdictions have already passed strong citywide sanctuary policies, but protections remain uneven across the state. From Long Island to Buffalo to Albany, New York needs a consistent, statewide policy to protect all immigrant residents.
Local Collusion With ICE Denies Immigrants Due Process.
Immigrants are entitled to fundamental constitutional rights here in the United States — including the right to due process. But right now, immigrants are being routinely abducted at courthouses, grabbed at ICE check-in facilities, and targeted by local law enforcement who are improperly acting as deportation agents. This erodes public safety, and undermines due process without any accountability. A threat to any New Yorker’s due process is a threat to us all. Whether they’re fleeing violence, reuniting with family, or want to build a better life for their children, immigrants must be guaranteed a fair day in court.
