By Kerry Picket
New York City cops took umbrage with comments made by New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill that were critical of
Attorney General Jeff Sessions for demanding the city comply with
federal immigration law.
NYPD active and retired law enforcement officers reacted to the
statement sent out by the Justice Department as well as the reaction to
it from the mayor and police commissioner.
Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner O’Neill both lashed out at Sessions
when the Justice Department sent out letters to nine cites warning
officials their defiance to federal immigration law will cost the city
federal grants.
The Justice Department said in the statement, “The letters remind the
recipient jurisdictions that, as a condition for receiving certain
financial year 2016 funding from the Department of Justice, each of
these jurisdictions agreed to provide documentation and an opinion from
legal counsel validating that they are in compliance with Section 1373.”
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