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  • ‘A Chilling Effect:’ Central New York County Faces Federal Threats for Not Complying with ICE

    02/21/2025 10:39:56 AM PST · by AbolishCSEU · 19 replies
    nysfocus.com ^ | 2/21/25 | Julia Rock Chris Gelardi
    The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence. Central New York’s Tompkins County, home to Ithaca, found itself in the federal government’s crosshairs last month when the Trump administration made the county a focal point of the president’s push to force localities to dedicate resources to mass deportations. Sheriff Derek Osborne did something routine: He released a man from jail after he’d served his sentence. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement wanted Osborne to hold the man, an undocumented immigrant, past his...
  • Justice Department investigating CNY sheriff for releasing migrant despite federal warrant

    01/31/2025 11:17:46 AM PST · by cuz1961 · 27 replies
    Revolver ^ | 1/31/2025 | Robert Harding
    ....The Department of Justice is investigating a central New York sheriff for not honoring a federal arrest warrant and releasing a migrant who was in jail on an assault charge. Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove said Thursday that the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office released Jesus Romero-Hernandez, a 27-year-old man from Mexico who was in the country illegally. Romero-Hernandez was in the Tompkins County Jail while facing a third-degree assault charge. ...
  • New York Rep. Chris Jacobs ends reelection bid following support for gun control

    06/03/2022 5:19:26 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 20 replies
    Politico.com ^ | 6/3/2022 | BILL MAHONEY
    ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Chris Jacobs has announced he will not seek another term in Congress, after the Republican faced rising backlash from the right following his announcement last week that he would support new gun control measures. “It would be an incredibly divisive election for both the Republican Party and the people of the 23rd District,” Jacobs said Friday afternoon at a press conference in Buffalo. “The last thing we need is an incredibly negative half-truth filled media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun...
  • Rep. Chris Jacobs announces he will not run for re-election (GOP gun grabber from NY drops out)

    06/03/2022 1:28:05 PM PDT · by God luvs America · 11 replies
    WIVB.com ^ | 6/3/2022 | WIVB
    Republican Congressman Chris Jacobs, who represents New York’s 27th district and announced his candidacy for New York’s 23rd district in May 2022, announced Friday he will no longer be running for the new district. Jacobs recently spoke out against the sale of AR-15s following the white supremacist mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue Tops Markets location in Buffalo. Conservatives seek primary challenger after Jacobs’ gun reform comments Tompkins County legislator MIke Sigler announced Tuesday he would be challenging Jacobs for NY-23 in the primary. News 4 also confirmed Ellicott Development Co. chair and former candidate for governor Carl Paladino plans...
  • NYPD cop-killer is now helping reform the police in New York

    03/29/2021 4:04:25 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 29, 2021 | Tina Moore
    He fatally shot an NYPD cop execution-style decades ago in a Queens bar — and now Richard Rivera is helping reform police in upstate New York as part of a state-mandated plan launched by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The cop-killer — who murdered off-duty officer and dad-of-four Robert Walsh in 1981 — sits on a panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County as part of its “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative.’’ The advisory group was formed after Cuomo ordered municipalities to submit police-reform plans to the state by April 1 following George Floyd’s death.