Rushing to jump on the #AbolishICE bandwagon, the City Council is looking to stop the city from doing any business with agencies that enforce federal immigration laws — and never mind, as City Hall belatedly pointed out, that it would make New Yorkers less safe.
The council’s Immigration Committee held a Thursday hearing for the bill — introduced by its chairman, Brooklyn Democrat Carlos Menchaca, and set for a vote next Wednesday — which is designed to be a response to President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.
But the de Blasio administration is refusing to back the bill because it would void two contracts with the Department of Homeland Security — one of them involving monitoring “the air for agents likely to be used in a bioterrorism attack.”
Bitta Mostofi, the mayor’s Immigrant Affairs chief, told the committee that the mayor loves the “goal” of dissing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the contract to use a DHS lab for the city BioWatch program is a matter of public safety.
Unfazed, Menchaca notes that the council “has done many things against the will of this mayor.” Pandering to the hard left, apparently, is just too important.




