The Conservative Cave

New York City fought to keep shelter records from ICE, even after the federal government accepted a screening process focused on people with serious criminal histories. On November 6, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered enforcement of the subpoena through a special master.

City Hall had its objections heard. It lost.

The dispute concerns a Bronx shelter and federal efforts to determine whether residents are subject to deportation. The city argued that compliance would impose an improper investigative burden and undermine its sanctuary laws. Kaplan found insufficient support for its claim that ICE’s purpose was political rather than investigative.

Protecting private information is a legitimate duty. Using privacy as a reason to reject an enforceable, supervised request requires more than an administration’s dislike of the agency asking. Otherwise, every city could decide which federal responsibilities merit cooperation by consulting the mayor’s campaign platform.
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Congress expressly authorized immigration officers to subpoena documents relevant to immigration enforcement. Federal law also permits the government to seek a district court’s help when a recipient refuses. Judicial enforcement is written into the statute. President Donald Trump didn’t invent the mechanism because New York elected a socialist mayor who dislikes his policies.

Cash App, Chewy, Boll & Branch, and Lola Blankets said on Friday that they no longer sponsor or advertise leftist Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast, according to company statements and customer service messages shared online amid backlash.

Cash App condemned violence in announcing it was no longer sponsoring the show. Chewy and Lola Blankets addressed their ties to the podcast in responses shared by customers, while Boll & Branch publicly ruled out future advertising. Their statements did not all specify when the sponsorships ended.

“We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast,” Cash App wrote on X in response to a user who tagged the company and called for a boycott over its sponsorship of the episode.