NEW YORK: New York City\u2019s police department provided federal immigration authorities with an internal record about a Palestinian woman who they arrested at a protest, which the Trump administration is now using as evidence in its bid to deport her, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
\nThe report \u2014 shared by the NYPD in March \u2014 includes a summary of information in the department\u2019s files about Leqaa Kordia, a New Jersey resident who was arrested at a protest outside Columbia University last spring. It lists her home address, date of birth and an officer\u2019s two-sentence account of the arrest.
\nIts distribution to federal authorities offers a glimpse into behind-the-scenes cooperation between the NYPD and the Trump administration, and raises questions about the city\u2019s compliance with sanctuary laws that prohibit police from assisting with immigration enforcement efforts.
\nKordia, 32, was among the earliest people jailed in President Donald Trump\u2019s crackdown on noncitizens who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
\nShe was detained during a voluntary check-in with immigration officials in Newark, New Jersey, on March 13, then flown to an immigration jail in Texas. Her arrest was announced by the US Department of Homeland Security the next day in a statement that cited an expired visa and her role in \u201cpro-Hamas protests.\u201d
\nIt remains unclear how immigration authorities were able to learn about Kordia\u2019s presence at the protest near Columbia last April.
\nAt the demonstration, police cited Kordia with disorderly conduct. But the charge was dismissed weeks later and the case sealed.
\nCity law generally prohibits police from sharing information about arrests with federal immigration officials, although there are exceptions for criminal investigations.
\nOn March 14, an NYPD officer generated a four-page report on Kordia and shared it with Homeland Security Investigations, a division of US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
\nIn an emailed statement, an NYPD spokesperson said the department \u201creceived a request from a federal agency related to a criminal investigation and shared relevant information in accordance with our sanctuary city policies.\u201d
\n\u201cThe NYPD does not participate in programs that are designed for visa revocation or any civil immigration matter,\u201d the statement added.
\nThe department declined to say what the investigation entailed.
\nInquiries to the DHS and ICE were not returned.
\nLegal experts and civil liberties advocates said the document reflected a worrisome level of information-sharing between the city and the federal government, which has conflated criticism of Israel with support for Hamas, a US-designated terror group.
\n\u201cThe intention of the sanctuary laws is to protect against this kind of collusion and pretextual information sharing,\u201d said Meghna Philip, the director of special litigation at the Legal Aid Society.
\n\u201cIt seems to be a clear violation of the law,\u201d Philip added, \u201cand raises questions about what guardrails, if any, the NYPD has around sharing information with a federal government that is seeking to criminalize speech.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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