Andrew Sage
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Yes, the government and specific parts of the government.
Let's start with some headlines.
Gothamist has obtained information about ICE being able to enter private parts of New York City shelters without a judicial warrant.
or being able to obtain private information about residents, despite both of these in theory being prohibited by sanctuary city laws in New York, right?
This happened at least five times.
The way Gotham has found this is by making a public records request for incident reports, which is a clever use of public record law.
The city is already aware of both jail and police officers violating these laws.
And I think this is,
A good example of how people think of sanctuary city laws as like inassailable.
But in fact, sanctuary laws, be they city, state, whatever jurisdiction, are very often violated.
And it's good to see that being reported on more.
Last week, we talked about Faustino Pablo Pablo, right?
The guy who had been sent to Guatemala, despite the fact that he had protections under the Convention Against Torture for being returned there.
The government has returned him to the U.S.,
That is a rare good immigration story.
It did really bum me out to see that, like, there were dozens of articles on him being sent there, right?
And I couldn't find anything, any reporting on him being returned, which is kind of like, we should be happy for these people.