The city is soft on enforcement, Mr. Kennedy said, because it fears offending powerful upstate developers, who can use their influence in Albany to stifle legislation affecting the city.
It is the claim that the city is soft on enforcement as a favor to powerful upstate developers and their friends in the State Legislature, which has a hand in the city's budget.
Their thrashing about on the question reflects the growing concern among Democrats that Republicans might use the issue against them next November, painting them as soft on enforcement and accommodating of lawlessness.
Based on a survey of 146 MTS farmers and qualitative methods, results revealed that the MTS potentially meets several of the social safeguard mechanisms distinguished by the IoI Project Team (legal security for forest users, soft law enforcement by creating incentives for adaptation, benefit sharing, capacity building, alternative livelihoods/employment and expanding the resource base).
Deportations fell for the second year in a row in 2016 and hit their lowest level since 2007, when George W. Bush was still in office, but that's not necessarily an indication that Obama was soft on enforcement, as Trump and other Republicans have claimed.
"If anyone thinks I'll be an advocate for soft-touch enforcement, they are going to be disappointed," Mr. Bennett said.
The owners of non-compliant websites face fines of up to £500,000, but the ICO has played down the threat of such serious action, telling the BBC it would take a soft approach to enforcement.
As the rhetoric heats up this political season, the right has hammered the White House for being soft on immigration enforcement while the left has slammed Obama and ICE for being too tough.
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