Wary of Trump immigration threat, NY may erase ID card data

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Deepti Hajela and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

Updated 8:34 pm, Tuesday, November 15, 2016



NEW YORK (AP) — When New York City launched the nation's biggest municipal ID card program last year, advocates said it would help people living in the U.S. illegally to venture out of the shadows.

But since Donald Trump was elected president, city officials are instead fielding questions about whether the cards could put those same people at greater risk of being deported.

The city has vowed to protect cardholders' personal records and might even delete them using a kind of self-destruct provision that allows for the information to be destroyed at the end of the year. At least one state lawmaker has criticized that idea, saying it could make it impossible to trace people if they have obtained cards fraudulently.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/After-Trump-win-NYC-could-destroy-immigrant-ID-10616425.php

[Judi Lynn]

1. 'Sanctuary cities' vow to protect immigrants from Trump plan

'Sanctuary cities' vow to protect immigrants from Trump plan

Gene Johnson, Associated Press

Updated 5:43 pm, Tuesday, November 15, 2016

SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic mayors of major U.S. cities that have long had cool relationships with federal immigration officials say they will do all they can to protect residents from deportation, despite President-elect Donald Trump's vows to withhold potentially millions of dollars in taxpayer money if they do not cooperate.

New York City's Bill de Blasio, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel and Seattle's Ed Murray are among those in "sanctuary cities" that have tried to soothe worried immigrant populations.

"Seattle has always been a welcoming city," Murray said Monday. "The last thing I want is for us to start turning on our neighbors."

In Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza, the son of Guatemalan immigrants, said he would continue a longstanding policy of refusing to hold people charged with civil infractions for federal immigration officials. Newark, New Jersey's Ras Baraka echoed that decision, calling Trump's rhetoric on immigration "scary."

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Mayors-of-sanctuary-cities-say-they-ll-fight-10614828.php

[eShirl]

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