Gov. Kathy Hochul has postponed a Thursday meeting with President Trump after the Justice Department revealed it was suing New York state over its sanctuary status.
Hochul had planned to meet Trump for lunch but rescheduled for next week, CBS reported, citing a source familar with the situation.
It comes just hours after the DOJ slapped the Empire State with a lawsuit over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
“New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said as she announced the suit.
“It stops. It stops today.”
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of New York, targets the state’s “Green Light Law,” which grants driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Hochul’s office quickly took aim at Trump’s AG, calling the move “dramatic.”
“Here are the facts: our current laws allow federal immigration officials to access any DMV database with a judicial warrant. That’s a common-sense approach that most New Yorkers support,” Hochul’s statement said.
“But there’s no way I’m letting federal agents, or Elon Musk’s shadowy DOGE operation, get unfettered access to the personal data of any New Yorker in the DMV system like 16-year-old kids learning to drive and other vulnerable people.”
