VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-14
“I have a right to answer this one because this is so absurd. I have said, from the president on down, I said, New York is not a sanctuary for criminals, not a sanctuary for criminals. Full stop.”
Kathy Hochul · said 2026-10-14 · reported 2026-10-14
Hochul rebutted Blakeman's sanctuary state claims, stating New York is not a sanctuary for criminals.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.