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Verification that Governor Kathy Hochul publicly proposed legislation to bar local police departments from partnering with ICE and that the proposal date is approximately one week before Mayor Mamdani’s Executive Order.
DHS’s press release (Feb 6, 2026) asserts Mamdani’s action came “just one week after Governor Kathy Hochul’s legislative proposal to bar local police departments from partnering and cooperating with ICE law enforcement.” I was able to confirm the quoted sentence exists in the DHS release, but independent authoritative evidence that Gov. Hochul formally proposed legislation to bar local police from partnering with ICE exactly one week earlier (around Jan 30, 2026) was not found in available high-quality sources; news coverage and the Governor’s official site show no clear, dated bill proposal matching that description in that one-week timeframe. Because the DHS release contains the claim but external corroboration of Hochul’s specific legislative proposal and its timing is lacking or not publicly documented, the timing/causal framing is Unclear and should be rechecked when official state documents or contemporary news reports are available.