May 7, 2026 In response to the Governor’s announcement today of the FY27 budget, which included an immigration package of “protections against ICE,” Yasmine Farhang, Executive Director of the Immigrant Defense Project, issued the following statement: “Tens of thousands of New Yorkers are living with daily fear as Trump continues to terrorize New Yorkers with a violent mass detention and … Read more »
April 16, 2026 The following is a statement from Immigrant Defense Executive Director Yasmine Farhang on news that Governor Hochul’s is proposing enabling law enforcement to use probable cause as a criteria for turning immigrant New Yorkers over to ICE. “Let’s be clear: the Governor’s proposal not only flies in the face of due process and the presumption of innocence … Read more »
February 24, 2026 The Map Shows the Urgent Need to Pass NY for All NEW YORK – The Immigrant Defense Project today launched New York ICE Collusion Watch, an interactive map that will track patterns of collusion identified between law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) and Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) across New York state. The map seeks … Read more »
January 29, 2026 New York, NY – On Thursday January 29, 2026, the New York City Council voted to override Mayor Adams’ lame duck veto of the Safer Sanctuary Act. In response, the ICE Out! NYC Coalition issued the following statement: “Thanks to the efforts of Councilmember Tiffany Cabán, Councilmember Alexa Avilés, Speaker Julie Menin, and their supermajority colleagues, no … Read more »
January 28, 2026 NEW YORK – At Tuesday’s Budget Hearing on Agriculture, farmers and farmworkers spoke to the urgent need to pass the New York for All Act. These testimonies, which included NY State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball, further revealed the climate of fear that farmers, farmworkers, and their families are facing under ICE’s reign of terror. New York State … Read more »
January 07, 2026 Advocates urge lawmakers to pass New York for All Act and stop using state resources to fund mass deportations Albany, NY – As the New York State (NYS) Legislature convened for its first day of session today, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called for “protecting our immigrant brothers and sisters by advancing goals set forth in New … Read more »
December 22, 2025 The Immigrant Defense Project celebrates passage of the Safer Sanctuary Act, Intro 1412, which keeps federal agents seeking to target our immigrant neighbors from having an office on Rikers Island (or any DOC property) and updates the definitions of immigration enforcement to reflect how the federal government weaponizes different arms of government to target people. New Yorkers … Read more »