statement<\/a>: \u201cEvery New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation. If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe didn\u2019t note that people in the country illegally are not \u201cNew Yorkers\u201d in any legal sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said during a press conference Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrongly detained four U.S. citizens during the Canal Street raid, holding them for \u201cnearly 24 hours\u201d without charges \u2014 an action he claimed was \u201clawless terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn other cities where the federal government has escalated immigration enforcement, local authorities have complained that federal agents have bent the law and abused civilians,\u201d The New York Times said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In San Francisco, which is bracing for an influx of ICE officers, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Wednesday that \u201cstate and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That said, the \u201cability of states to arrest federal officers is murky,\u201d the Times reported. U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said if \u201cICE agents are acting legally, the state can\u2019t prosecute them and hold them liable, even if it dislikes what they\u2019re doing,\u201d but if they \u201cact beyond their legal authority, and violate state law in doing so, they can be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, James was set to appear in a federal courtroom in Virginia on Friday to face allegations of mortgage fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James was indicted earlier this month after prosecutors alleged she lied on a mortgage application to obtain favorable loan terms on a Virginia property she later rented out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury, centers on a single-family home in Norfolk, Virginia, that James co-purchased in August 2020 for roughly $137,000. Most of the purchase was financed with a $109,600 loan that prohibited the home from being used as a rental or investment property, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By misrepresenting the property as a second home, James received a lower interest rate and saved \u201capproximately $18,933 over the life of the loan,\u201d prosecutors said in a five-page filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte referred the case to the Department of Justice earlier this year, prompting a criminal probe that led to the indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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