Rep. Dan Goldman Calls for ICE Agents to Be Arrested
22nd October 2025
A Democratic New York congressman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and prosecute ICE agents who engage in “unlawful actions” during federal immigration crackdowns in the city.
Democrats are lawfare central.
In a letter to NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman rips U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers’ “outrageous and unlawful conduct” in cities around the country, saying they have been “violently and improperly” arresting U.S. citizens.
That’s an assumption on his part, otherwise he would cite cases. There are ways to object to what LEOs so, and this isn’t one of them. It is, however, the way that empowers him to make spurious accusations, without the perceived need to cite any evidence, and grandstand for the news media, which I suspect is all it is.
Goldman said with the “likely possibility” that the Department of Homeland Security will “send armies of agents into New York City for civil immigration purposes” he urged the NYPD to be “prepared to strictly enforce state and local laws in order to hold federal agents accountable for any unlawful actions they engage in, including potentially through arrest and prosecution for felony violations.”
Said Commissioner will, if she (it’s always a she in a Blue state) knows anything about the law, ignore him, because of two little words: Qualified Immunity. (Feel free to look it up. Or, if you’re lazy, just ask your favorite AI.)
It’s astonishing the number of Congressmen, who are in charge of writing our laws, appear to know nothing about the laws to which they are attempting to add (or modify, as the case may be). This applies even to those who are lawyers (by training if not by trade) who one would expect to know better. In this particular case, he does know better, being a JD from Stanford; I suspect he’s traded his lawyer hat for a politician hat and never looked back.