New York to create team of legal observers to document ICE raids

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 3 Feb 2026 17.19 EST
Last modified on Tue 3 Feb 2026 17.29 EST


New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday.

The announcement follows weeks of sometimes violent tumult in Minneapolis, where Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed, masked agents as he tries to deport more migrants than any of his predecessors.

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said the state’s new legal observers would be volunteer employees from her office, trained to observe, without interfering, whether Trump’s immigration enforcement “remains within the bounds of the law”.

“I am proud to protect New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to speak freely, protest peacefully, and go about their lives without fear of unlawful federal action,” James, a Democrat, said in a statement. “We have seen in Minnesota how quickly and tragically federal operations can escalate in the absence of transparency and accountability.“

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/new-york-legal-observers-ice-raids

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Link to NY AG James PRESS RELEASE - Attorney General James Launches Legal Observation Project to Monitor Federal Immigration Enforcement in New York

[mysteryowl]

1. YES, this is what every city and state needs!

[womanofthehills]

2. Great news!

The hate for women is off the wall amongst ICE men. Throwing women around, stepping on their backs, pointing guns and a knife, etc
Creepy group of evil psychopaths.

Woman testifying about being shot 5 times and had to call 111 herself while bleeding.

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[Martin68]

3. Every locality where ICE is conducting raids should do this.