ICE chief rips New York for sharing driver data with Canada, but not US immigration agents
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
Every police department in New York state received a memorandum in conjunction with the ‘Green Light Law’ that stated they could no longer share Department of Motor Vehicle records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP). If they did share information -- or chose not to sign the memorandum -- the department would be cut off from DMV records entirely. This posed a large threat to every police department, especially those along our northern border, like the Niagara County Sheriff's Department. Now the Niagara County Sheriff and ICE’s NY Field Director are speaking out.
The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is accusing the state of New York of putting lives at risk by shutting federal immigration authorities out of state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) databases -- and highlighting that the state is still granting access to that same data to Canadian law enforcement.
“Information is the lifeblood of law enforcement. If we learned anything from 9/11 it’s that information needs to be shared quickly and fully, and what this has done is to roll back the clock,†Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Matt Albence told Fox News in an interview Friday. “This is a pre-9/11 mentality in a post-9/11 world and it’s dangerous.â€
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-chief-rips-ny-green-light-canada
