Sanctuary switch-up: Kathy Hochul now backs deportations for migrants who assaulted police

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week embraced deportation for the migrants who assaulted two New York City Police officers, challenging the logic of the city’s sanctuary policy and drawing a rebuke from a former ICE director.

“Shame on her,” Tom Homan, who ran U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Trump administration, told The Washington Times. “This is just too little too late. This is getting national media, so all of a sudden she makes a statement.”

In the assault, which was caught on video, a gang of young men kicked and punched two...