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Kathy Hochul: “We will not cooperate in civil enforcement. That is the job…”

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Published | Video Starts at 14:47

I need to step in and do something and also want to be very clear that my job is to protect everyone. So I will not engage in civil enforcement. We will not cooperate in civil enforcement. That is the job of [ICE] and I wish they would stop doing it the way they have been. If they need to go after criminals, I'm not stepping in and saying we're prohibiting that. That's the difference here. (14:47–14:54)

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