"The City Council on Thursday overrode a mayoral veto of a bill that would explicitly bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from operating an office on any land owned by the city's Department of Correction, including Rikers Island. A supermajority of the Council voted to pass the bill, introduced by Queens City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán, after former Mayor Eric Adams vetoed it on his last day in office."
""We are at a crossroads," Cabán said. "The brutal assault on Minnesota is just the beginning. The Safer Sanctuary Act was precisely designed to protect New York City from the Trump-Vance administration's authoritarianism." "This law ensures our sanctuary city laws protect New Yorkers regardless of which agency is enacting the horrific Trump-Vance agenda - be it the FBI, the IRS, United States Marshals or DHS," she added."
City Council overrode a mayoral veto to bar ICE from operating on any land owned by the Department of Correction, including Rikers Island. The Safer Sanctuary Act, introduced by Queens Councilmember Tiffany Cabán, explicitly supersedes any conflicting mayoral executive order or memorandum of understanding with ICE. The bill followed a Manhattan judge's finding that a prior executive order aiming to allow ICE on Rikers was illegal. The override passed 44-7 on Jan. 29 and was one of 17 overrides that day. Three Queens councilmembers — Joann Ariola, Phil Wong and Jim Gennaro — voted against the override. The law is framed as a response to increased deportations and recent fatal encounters involving ICE agents, and is intended to protect sanctuary city protections regardless of which federal agency seeks to enforce them.
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