NY City Just Made it Illegal to Threaten to Call ICE “Based on a Discriminatory Motive”

Moments ago, New York City announced they have made it illegal to threaten to call ICE based on a “discriminatory motive.”

They have also made it illegal to threaten to tell someone “go back to your country.”

BREAKING:
New York City has made it illegal to threaten to call ICE based on a discriminatory motive or to tell someone "go back to your country." Hate has no place here. pic.twitter.com/8PaIozjQty

— City of New York (@nycgov) September 26, 2019

Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted:

If you want to come into the ultimate city of immigrants and try to spread hate, you WILL face the consequences.

If you want to come into the ultimate city of immigrants and try to spread hate, you WILL face the consequences. https://t.co/QWy54wADZ1

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) September 27, 2019

Some on Twitter expressed concern over the new policies.

One Twitter user quoted Orwell

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” -G. Orwell, 1984

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

-G. Orwell, 1984

— The Red-Headed Libertarian™️ (@TRHLofficial) September 28, 2019

Another responded to the tweet with:

“Good citizens don’t “threaten to call ICE”. They just call ICE.”