Prohibits state and local agencies from inquiring about or sharing immigration status information except in narrow cases, bars law enforcement from assisting federal immigration enforcement or honoring most civil detainers, and limits use of facilities for immigration purposes, so less immigrationen
No state or local law enforcement agency, or agent thereof, shall stop, question, interrogate, investigate or arrest a person for any of the following: (a) suspected United States immigration or citizenship status violation;
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Bars state and local law enforcement from performing functions of federal immigration officers, assisting in enforcement of federal immigration law, honoring most civil detainers without a judicial warrant or specific criminal/terrorist criteria, and sharing most information with federal immigration
No state or local law enforcement agency, nor any agent thereof, shall make any inquiry or record any information concerning the immigration status or place of birth of a person who: (a) contacts, approaches or asks for or is in need of assistance of a law enforcement agency or (b) is stopped, questioned, interrogated, investigated or arrested; except where such immigration status or place of birth information is an element of a criminal offense in a specific, ongoing law enforcement investigation
Limits when state or local agencies may detain individuals based on civil immigration detainers to narrow circumstances (judicial warrant, specific prior removal with violent felony conviction, or terrorist database match) and prohibits providing certain custody information to federal immigration
A state or local law enforcement agency, or agent thereof, lawfully holding a person in its custody, may thereafter detain such person solely on the basis of a civil immigration detainer, for a single period not exceeding forty-eight hours excluding weekends and holidays, beyond the time when such person would otherwise have been released from such agency's custody, only if: (a) an authorized federal immigration agency presents such state or local law enforcement agency with a judicial warrant for the detention of the person who is the subject of such civil immigration detainer at the time
Requires provision of legal representation at state expense for certain individuals in federal removal proceedings who were present or resided in New York, and mandates access to services and benefits without immigration-status inquiries except for eligibility verification, so reduced cooperation in
A person unable to afford counsel against whom a removal proceeding may be or has been commenced, shall be entitled to representation by assigned counsel and related assistance, pursuant to subdivision one of section thirty-five of the judiciary law, when the person: (a) was present in this state when questioned, taken into custody, charged, summoned or presented with the allegations of the removal proceedings, and the person resides or is detained in either this state or an adjoining state;
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill enacts a broad set of sanctuary-style restrictions on state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, including limits on inquiries and data sharing about immigration status, prohibitions on assisting ICE or honoring most detainers, facility access limits, and state-funded counsel in removal cases.
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