Someone allegedly tried to bomb the New York state Capitol for ISIS, and Republicans are asking why the state just passed a law making it harder to catch people like her.
As Conservative Brief reported, a woman was arrested for allegedly planning an ISIS-inspired bombing targeting the Capitol building in Albany. Authorities from multiple agencies collaborated to shut the whole thing down before anyone got hurt. Everyone agreed that was great. Then the arguing started.
See, New York just enacted a shiny new immigration statute that forbids local police departments from keeping official partnerships with federal immigration agencies. Starting Tuesday, municipalities have to rip up their existing agreements with federal immigration authorities. Republicans took one look at the foiled terror plot, then looked at the new law, and said something along the lines of "Are you people serious right now?"
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is currently running for governor against Democrat Kathy Hochul, has been the loudest voice in the room. His county participates in the federal 287(g) program, which lets local cops partner directly with ICE. Blakeman essentially argued that authorities just proved multi-level cooperation catches terrorists, so naturally the state decided to outlaw multi-level cooperation. Incredible timing, truly.
"When local and federal law enforcement work together, terrorists are caught before they can hurt innocent Americans," Blakeman declared. He called the foiled plot a "wake-up call" for Hochul, suggesting that building bureaucratic walls between cops and feds does not exactly scream public safety.
Blakeman has notably declined to confirm whether Nassau County will actually comply with the new statute and cut ties with federal immigration authorities. He is, however, turning the whole thing into a centerpiece of his gubernatorial campaign. Polls apparently show the race getting tighter, which probably explains why everyone involved is yelling louder than usual.
Hochul's team fired back by pointing out that Donald Trump once attempted to yank $187 million in NYPD counterterrorism funding because New York operates as a sanctuary jurisdiction. Campaign spokesperson Ryan Radulovacki bragged that Hochul recovered that money while Blakeman supposedly sat on his hands doing absolutely nothing.
Republicans were unmoved. They countered that Hochul's approach to non-citizens has actively endangered New Yorkers, citing multiple murders and other violent crimes committed by undocumented individuals who state and city officials refused to transfer to federal immigration authorities.
State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt piled on via X, calling the alleged terror plot "disturbing" and arguing it proves exactly why every level of law enforcement needs to be communicating freely. He also connected the incident directly to the new immigration statute, because why waste a perfectly good talking point.
So to recap the situation in New York: authorities just stopped a potential terrorist attack through interagency cooperation, the governor signed a law restricting interagency cooperation, and now everyone is screaming at each other about it while running for office. Democracy is beautiful.
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