During a city council hearing on Wednesday, February 23 years of emails were made public showing collaboration between some members of the Department of Corrections and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) were able to obtain dozens of emails between the DOC and ICE spanning from 2015 to 2019 using a Freedom of Information Law request. Excerpts of the emails, revealed during questioning by Council member Shahana Hanif, the Chair of the Immigration Committee, disclosed that despite New York City laws limiting DOC collaboration with ICE, DOC has still been cooperating with — and at times going out of their way — to coordinate with immigration authorities.
