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Pastor tells council new ICE-warrant policy risks unlawful detentions and promises legal aid

3152819 · March 13, 2025
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Summary

A pastor said the police department’s new policy on ICE administrative warrants could lead to unlawful detentions, described administrative warrants as distinct from judicial warrants, and called the policy 'unconstitutional' and 'white supremacist fascist trash.'

Pastor Andy Oliver told the council he reviewed the police department’s newly issued ICE policy with immigration attorneys and warned the policy could lead to unlawful detentions if officers acted on administrative warrants alone.

Oliver, pastor at Allendale United Methodist Church, said he spent a day consulting “leading immigration attorneys” after receiving the department’s new policy and emphasized the legal difference between…

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