• The New York State Police have quietly built a database of over 5,000 alleged gang members using speculative criteria like tattoos, clothing, and associations. The database is not publicized and had received almost no outside attention.

• Governor Kathy Hochul has said the State Police, which she controls, won’t cooperate with President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — yet the agency funnels the gang database into a federal system that makes it instantly available to ICE.

• The Trump administration is carrying out extrajudicial mass deportations of immigrants with alleged gang ties — justified, in cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s, by gang databases maintained by local police departments.

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