Thread: Mayor: Database of undocumented New Yorkers could be deleted

Mayor: Database of ndocumented New Yorkers could be deleted

By David Shortell, CNN
Updated 7:00 AM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

Story highlights

• Database holds personal information on undocumented immigrants
• Information includes the addresses and dates of birth of more than 850,000 New Yorkers

(CNN)A database containing the identity of undocumented immigrants living in New York City would not be opened up to a Trump administration without a "real fight," the city's mayor said on Thursday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a news conference the day after President-elect Donald Trump's stunning electoral victory, also left open the possibility that the database, which holds personal information from the more than 850,000 New Yorkers who have a city municipal identification card, could be scrubbed.

The IDNYC card was introduced in 2015 as a free and official proof of identification that could be obtained with limited documentation -- making it accessible to the nearly half million city residents without legal immigration status.

The personal information of cardholders, including addresses and dates of birth, is stored on encrypted databases and servers, according to the city. It cannot be disclosed to federal law enforcement or immigration authorities without permission from the city's human resources administration. Applicants do not have to disclose their immigration status to receive a card.

Mayor: Privacy is going to be respected

Trump has not inquired into the city's database publicly, but his statements throughout the campaign have made many fearful that he will act on his words.

Early in his campaign, in 2015, Trump announced that he would deport all of the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US by creating a "deportation task force" within Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

He later altered his plan and said he would be "focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens in America." He said he would boost the ranks of agents to enforce existing laws. Trump has said he is against any amnesty for the undocumented.

"[Trump] can change some federal laws but the Constitution protects a lot of the rights and powers of localities," de Blasio said.

Sanctuary city status could be affected

"So on something like [the database], I think because it touches that button directly of whether people's personal privacy is going to be respected, I think that's one where there would be a real fight."

A provision of the ID law that allows the personal information retained in the database to be "destroyed" by the end of the year -- a deadline included intentionally in case a "Tea Party Republican" won the White House, according to one of the law's sponsors -- could also be enacted, de Blasio said.

"As you know there's been an ongoing plan regardless of any electoral activity how long records are kept. Given this new reality we're certainly going to assess how we should handle it," he said.

New York's status as a so-called sanctuary city, which allows it in some cases to shield undocumented immigrants who have broken the law from deportation requests, could also be affected if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to block funding for cities with the policy.

Asked about the possibility, de Blasio said "We're not going to tear families apart. So we will do everything we know how to do to resist that."

De Blasio would 'happily invite' Trump to dinner

De Blasio has called Trump a blowhard and, a few weeks ago, de Blasio said the billionaire was running a racist campaign and had acted like a fascist when he complained the election was rigged.

Trump has tweeted that New York's Mayor is "probably the worst mayor in the history of NYC."

Speaking at City Hall on Thursday, de Blasio extended a conciliatory note to the President-elect. He said he had reached out on a staff-to-staff level.

He would "happily invite him to dinner to have a conversation," and would "work with him and do everything we can to help him" to achieve goals of mutual interest, including infrastructure investment and tax code reform, de Blasio said.

However, de Blasio noted the number of issues that stood between them -- the mayor of the country's biggest city and the Republican who came to power propelled largely by the support of middle America -- were great too. "I take his platform and his vision very seriously and I think it's in many ways very dangerous. That being said, one has the distinct impression that some of that was just for show. So we're going to find out," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politi...ase/index.html

by LANA SHADWICK
16 Nov 2016
New York, NY
524 comments

New York City may delete their city ID cards to protect illegal aliens from deportation risks as a result of the November election.
NYC initiated the largest municipal ID card program in 2015 and now the City is worried about President-Elect Donald Trump and his immigration policies, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday.

Breitbart News reported in September of 2014 that New York was offering free attractions to get illegal aliens to apply for city IDs. As reported, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gave illegal aliens free access to its zoo, museums and the New York City Ballet, in order to entice them to sign up for IDs.

At the time, de Blasio was reported to urge that “The municipal ID is more than just a card—it provides New Yorkers who are currently living in the shadows with dignity and peace of mind. My administration is fully ready to develop this plan.” The program, the largest of its kind in the country, passed by a vote of 43 to 3 and was expected to involve 500,000 illegal aliens. The city card was also designed to permit a gender selection based upon the concept of gender fluid self-identification for transgendered persons.

As of February 2015, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were standing in long lines to get a card. As reported by the AP and Breitbart News, there were 260,000 appointments in the first month of the program alone.

New York City Councilman Carlos Menchaca was reported by Breitbart News and the New York Post as saying that the new cards had a “self-destruct mechanism” for destroying the cards.

The city’s new municipal ID program allows for personal info provided by applicants to be destroyed at the end of 2016, in case a conservative Republican wins the White House and demands the data, the law’s co-sponsor told The Post.

City Councilman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn) said the measure was crafted so data submitted by those seeking the cards can be destroyed on Dec. 31, 2016.

Breitbart News predicted:

Rest assured, in the event Obama’s ‘leadership’ is supplanted by someone who actually thinks laws mean what they say, the government is duty-bound to enforce them, and the primary concern of the American government should be American citizens (or, Heaven forbid, American taxpayers), Mechaca and his crew are ready to spring into action, wiping out data that could be used against his preferred constituents.

Mayor de Blasio told illegal immigrants in February of 2015, “we have your back.” This was after a federal district court judge in Brownsville, Texas, issued an order temporarily blocking President Obama’s executive amnesty order.

The AP reported that after the election of Republican nominee Donald Trump, the city may consider destroying the cards.

One illegal alien, Alberto Saldivia, said that he got his municipal card last year after illegally being in the U.S. for 15 years. He was reported to say, “It did cause me considerable concern, because they have my information, also the information on my son.” He feels better now they report after NYC Mayor de Blasio say he would “absolutely” protect the identities of those who received the municipal cards.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/...se-stop-trump/

It's outrageous to see a Mayor acting this way. If this doesn't tell you straight up he's on the drug cartel pay chain, then you just aren't paying attention.