Politics & Government Active Updated Aug 27, 2026
The end of local ICE cooperation deals
New York's new Immigrant Trust Office ordered 12 local police agencies, including Nassau County's, to end cooperation deals with ICE by Aug. 25, enforcing the state's sanctuary law. The order landed the same week the parents of murdered Westchester student Sheridan Gorman renewed their push to loosen those same rules. The fight is over whether local police departments can keep working with federal immigration enforcement.
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Aug 27, 2026 Latest
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman terminated his county's 287(g) cooperation agreement with ICE, saying he disagreed with New York's new ban but concluded Nassau 'would have to abide by the law,' and said he is joining the 15 sheriffs' lawsuit seeking to overturn it.
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Aug 26, 2026
New York's ban on local police 287(g) agreements with ICE took effect Tuesday; nine of the twelve agencies that had such agreements terminated them, while Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed the holdouts, including Nassau, Rensselaer, Broome and Steuben counties. Fifteen sheriffs, represented by a lawyer for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, sued in the Northern District of New York the same day, arguing the law strips elected officials of authority federal law grants them.
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Aug 25, 2026
Republicans attacked New York's new sanctuary law in the wake of last week's foiled Albany Capitol bomb plot, arguing the law would make similar cases harder to prosecute, a claim Gov. Hochul's office called misleading since ICE was not involved in that arrest, City & State reported.
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Aug 15, 2026
President Trump rallied with Bruce Blakeman at the Nassau County police academy, calling New York's sanctuary law seditious and touting national crime data, while Blakeman had still not said whether Nassau would comply with the state's Aug. 25 deadline to end ICE cooperation. A new Siena poll showed Gov. Hochul's lead over Blakeman narrowing to 49% to 39%, down from a 20-point margin in June.
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Aug 12, 2026
A Cattaraugus County sheriff publicly pushed back on Gov. Hochul's sanctuary-law crackdown on local ICE cooperation deals, saying Albany continually dictates to local governments and then expects local taxpayers to pick up the bill.
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Aug 5, 2026
Gov. Hochul and Attorney General James vowed to keep fighting after a federal judge blocked New York's ban on masked ICE agents, while the Department of Homeland Security said it would ignore the state's rules regardless.
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Aug 3, 2026
U.S. District Judge Mae D'Agostino issued a preliminary injunction upholding New York's ban on local police 287(g) cooperation agreements with ICE, calling it an appropriate means of protecting public welfare, while separately blocking the state's law banning ICE agents from wearing masks. Gov. Hochul and Attorney General James said in a joint statement the cooperation-ban ruling would keep communities safe, and Homeland Security said it would keep fighting mask-ban rulings.
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Jul 26, 2026
New York's new Immigrant Trust Office ordered 12 local police agencies, including Nassau County's, to end cooperation agreements with ICE by Aug. 25, El Diario NY reported, the same week the parents of murdered Westchester student Sheridan Gorman renewed calls to loosen the state's sanctuary rules.
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