The mayor of Houston on Friday said the city would limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, heralding “a new model” of immigration enforcement after Democrats won power in Texas for the first time in decades.
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Houston’s mayor, John Whitmire, said the city would go after immigrants “that pose a danger, not those that are going about their family business, work and education”.
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A traffic incident “will not even [trigger immigration enforcement] …
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You write a citation or you warn them and they go about their way.
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It reduces the fear and anxiety.”
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The move by the nation’s fourth-largest city is one of the first steps to curb ICE’s powers since Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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In July, ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston while reportedly looking for other individuals.
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The shooting rattled residents of the Magnolia Park neighborhood in Houston, where the shooting occurred.
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It was also another blow to the embattled housing construction industry in Texas, which has been losing skilled, experienced workers at a high volume and high rates.
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“We feel it on a level we can’t even describe,” a neighbor who declined to share his name for fear of retaliation told the Guardian in July.
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“Everybody knows that what happened is wrong.
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How will we not stand with our people, stand behind them, especially when something so vicious and ugly happened?”
Under the mayor’s new directive, Houston police should contact ICE only if the person it stops is arrested on a charge that is subject to jailing or if ICE issues an administrative warrant, which is an order signed by a senior ICE official indicating that the person is wanted by immigration officials.
“The fact that a person is, or is suspected to be, subject to immigration enforcement shall not, by itself, be a basis to contact ICE, to prolong any detention, or to take any person into or hold any person in custody,” the two-page order states.
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Spokespersons for ICE did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the mayor’s announcement.
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In October, an ICE agent struck an individual with their vehicle during a pursuit of a different suspect whose family noted he died years ago.
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A grand jury indicted ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Prosecutors say Morales intentionally rammed his car into Miguel Parra Hernandez, whose leg was broken.
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ICE has asserted that Parra Hernandez ran in front of the vehicle, an account that prosecutors say is contradicted by video.
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Despite a one-time $75bn infusion from Congress, ICE remains heavily dependent on local police to find people subject to deportation and turn them over.
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It has done so partly by signing about 2,600 agreements – many in Texas – to deputize local police and other state and local agencies to enforce immigration laws.
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Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, has closely aligned the state with the Trump administration to collaborate on enforcing federal immigration laws.
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He lost his bid for a fourth term to Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
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Fiel, an immigrant-rights group in Houston that has been working with the family of Parra Hernandez, planned to hold a press conference on Friday afternoon in light of the announcement.
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“Today Houston won.
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The Houston city council had already decided this months ago,” said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of Fiel Houston, adding that it was time to follow through.
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The Associated Press contributed reporting
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