Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Berkshire County activists say Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is more talk than action when it comes to protecting state residents from the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown. As WAMC reports, the activists made their feelings known during the governor’s most recent trip to the region.

ICE has retracted statements about purchasing a former Pep Boys warehouse for a detention facility in Chester, NY. The agency said the original statement was a “mistake.”

The Burlington City Council has passed a resolution to address potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the city

Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak signed an executive order titled: “Affirming Our Commitment to Preparedness, Due Process, and Community Trust: City of Burlington Response to Federal Immigration Enforcement Activity.”

The Albany County Legislature is set to introduce a measure that would prohibit all of its agencies from using public funds to travel on, promote or partner with any “deportation airlines.”

The Albany County Legislature is set introduce a resolution next week directing all county agencies to not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol. Local Republicans have been vocal in their opposition.

The South Burlington City Council has officially condemned the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown.

(Airs 01/30/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A New York Congressman calls for ICE to be abolished, advocates are hoping that recent policy changes will make a difference in the state’s child poverty rate, and we’ll talk with the state Inspector General about the agency’s 40th birthday.

As tensions continue to rise over the presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in communities across the country, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul took her strongest stance yet.

Congressman Paul Tonko wants ICE abolished. It comes as a negative sentiment toward the federal immigration crackdown is growing.