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Brad Lander: “I was proud to be a co-sponsor of the bill that strengthened…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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New York City Forum on Sanctuary City Laws and Immigrant Protections

Published | Video Starts at 04:28

This is a really critical moment right now when it's not just immigrant rights who are under attack, it's our whole democracy that is being attacked through Trump's xenophobia. So I was proud to be a co-sponsor of the bill that strengthened the sanctuary city laws when I was in the City Council that added the prohibition that ICE cannot be on Rikers. And we knew then that that was because we couldn't trust ICE to respect due process. (04:28–04:39)

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Asserts co-sponsorship of a bill prohibiting ICE presence on Rikers Island.

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