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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official took a stern shot at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday.

While announcing the arrest of a Brazilian criminal alien who’s under investigation for a slew of crimes, ICE Buffalo field office director Thomas Brophy slammed Hochul over her soft policies toward illegals.

“This is the second case in as many days of ERO Buffalo officers arresting a foreign national attempting to outrun his criminal past by illegally entering the United States and continuing to victimize people,” he said. “These cases highlight the dangers of ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions and state policies that obstruct law enforcement from cooperating with ERO.”

“The men and women of ERO will continue to protect our communities from dangerous offenders, regardless of what the governor of New York State says. We will not be deterred by politicians putting votes over protecting the citizens of this nation,” he added.

ERO is short for Enforcement and Removal Operations.

According to Fox News, the Brazilian national the agency arrested Friday has pending charges in the U.S. for strangulation and endangering the welfare of a child, and is being investigated in Brazil for murder.

Hochul effectively declared New York a sanctuary state in 2021 by signing into law a bill that made it illegal to threaten to report a criminal alien’s immigration status.

“New York is built on the hard work and determination of generations of immigrants, and we need to support people who are trying to build better lives for themselves and their families,” she said at the time.

“This legislation will protect New Yorkers from bad actors who use extortion or coercion due to their immigration status, and make our state safer against vile threats and intimidation,” she added.

Hochul started to change her tune in 2023, after the border crisis erupted, by declaring a state of emergency and also telling any potential illegals to stay out of her state.

“If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else,” she said on CNN at the time. “We have to let the word out that when you come to New York, you’re not going to have more hotel rooms. We don’t have capacity, so we have to also message properly.”

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Returning to the present, Hochul is now facing pressure from activists to do something to block President-elect Donald Trump from mass deporting the criminal aliens in her state.

“Over and over again Donald Trump has shown that his administration will make it a priority to cause devastating damage to immigrant communities,” Make the Road NY co-executive director Theo Oshiro said in a recent statement. “It is now up to state and city leaders to take a stand against this agenda, and refuse to work with agencies that violate the rights of immigrant New Yorkers and instill fear in our communities.”

“There is no more time for platitudes: Governor Hochul must state publicly and unequivocally that she will not deploy the New York National Guard to support Trump’s deportation agenda. New York must be a safe haven for immigrants and it must not fall complicit to Trump’s heinous plans,” he added.

All this comes months after Hochul pardoned the crimes of several criminal aliens so as to either prevent them from being deported or make it possible for them to return to the U.S. after being deported.

One of the pardons went to Paul Pierrilus, a Haitian criminal alien who moved to New York at five years old, caught a drug charge in 2003, and was then finally picked up for deportation at the tail end of the first Trump administration.

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