Bill de Blasio: Not Asking People Documentation Status, That’s How We Actually Keep People Safe
‘Talk to NYPD leaders and they’ll tell you once you start asking people documentation status, no one is going to talk to you if they happen to have an undocumented status’
Jan 23, 2025 7:30 PM
By Grabien Staff
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DE BLASIO: “There's almost been a little amnesia about what we saw in the previous 4 years. I spent 4 years as mayor in New York City, often having to challenge Donald Trump. We went to court many times. We actually won on a regular basis. We had the independent power as locality to govern our own affairs. And this is a profoundly American reality. The founders created a country where a lot of the power devolved down to states and localities. They did not want a national government that controlled everything. So, for example, if you have a city like New York that says, we're not going to ask documentation status in our schools, hospitals, or with our police force, talking to people out in the streets, they're not going to ask documentation status. Because that's how we actually keep people safe.”
