So insists a collective of elected
officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Council
Immigration Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore,
urging her to ban U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New York State courts.
«Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I
urge federal
immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children,» Paterson said at the time.