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DOJ sues New York City over 'sanctuary' immigration policies

NEW YORK CITY, JUL 24 – The DOJ alleges New York City’s sanctuary policies obstruct federal immigration enforcement and threaten public safety, citing a recent shooting involving an undocumented migrant.

  • On Thursday, the Department of Justice sued New York City in the Eastern District of New York, naming Mayor Eric Adams, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and Department of Correction Commissioner Lynette Maginley-Liddie.
  • The city’s sanctuary ordinances, in effect since 1989, bar NYPD and Corrections from turning over detainees to ICE without a judicial warrant and recent violent conviction.
  • The lawsuit cites the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol officer in an upper Manhattan park over the weekend, and that the alleged shooter was a migrant from the Dominican Republic, accused of grand larcenies and robberies in The Bronx, according to NYPD officials.
  • Meanwhile, Tom Homan threatened to 'flood the zone' with ICE agents, while Kayla Mamelak Altus urged the City Council to reexamine laws for better federal cooperation.
  • Looking ahead, U.S. Department of Justice lawyers assert sanctuary laws violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, and the Trump administration previously sued New York State over its green light law.
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Algemeen Dagblad broke the news in Amersfoort, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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