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A pair of Staten Island GOP lawmakers have lodged a lawsuit against
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration to prevent him from purging the
records of his municipal identification program at the end of the
year—records believed to contain the information of thousands of
undocumented immigrants, and which advocates fear could wind up in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.
One week after announcing they were exploring the option
of requesting a judicial injunction, Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis filed a brief against the city, arguing
that expunging the files of the IDNYC program would violate the state’s
Freedom of Information Law—which explicitly forbids the destruction of
documents “with intent to prevent public inspection”—and would overstep
the city’s legal powers. De Blasio and his liberal allies created IDNYC
to provide proof of identity to individuals lacking other forms of
government paperwork, and the City Council deliberately wrote a
legislative trap door into the bill that established the program to
grant the city the right to purge the files at the end of 2016 should a
deportation-happy regime assume power in Washington.
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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)
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