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Illegal immigrants would get sanctuary across New York state under a plan being pushed by a Bronx lawmaker, who says the timing is right to expand the controversial policy already in effect in the Big Apple.
Democratic state Sen. Jose Serrano Jr. is sponsoring a bill to prohibit cops from holding non-citizens for deportation by the feds unless they’ve been convicted of serious or violent crimes in the past five years.
In the past, similar proposals never stood a chance of passing the then-GOP-led Senate, but Republicans lost control in last year’s election.
And since Democrats are now in charge of both houses of the Legislature — which is already on the verge of passing a bill to let the state DMV issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants — Serrano said he is hopeful of reaching a consensus on his “Dignity for Immigrants in New York State Act.”
“We expect to have a good, robust discussion on the bill,” he told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/21/bronx-lawmaker-jose-serrano-make-ny-a-sanctuary-state/
Democratic state Sen. Jose Serrano Jr. is sponsoring a bill to prohibit cops from holding non-citizens for deportation by the feds unless they’ve been convicted of serious or violent crimes in the past five years.
In the past, similar proposals never stood a chance of passing the then-GOP-led Senate, but Republicans lost control in last year’s election.
And since Democrats are now in charge of both houses of the Legislature — which is already on the verge of passing a bill to let the state DMV issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants — Serrano said he is hopeful of reaching a consensus on his “Dignity for Immigrants in New York State Act.”
“We expect to have a good, robust discussion on the bill,” he told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/21/bronx-lawmaker-jose-serrano-make-ny-a-sanctuary-state/
