Kathy Hochul didn’t blink when it came to protecting New Yorkers, especially the kids.
She wasn’t guessing. Today, ProPublica documented 79 children harmed by federal agents using tear gas and pepper spray. Those are only the ones reporters could find and confirm. Tom Homan threatened twice this week to flood New York with more agents than the state had ever seen. That’s the same kind of surge that hit Minneapolis a couple of months ago, where federal agents shot three people, killed two of them, and lied about all three.
Hochul announced the budget framework anyway. The mask comes off in New York, and ICE can’t walk into a school or hospital without a judge’s warrant. Then she dared Homan to come ahead.
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