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Residents urge action after ICE activity; police chief and commissioners describe limits on local authority
Summary
Residents and advocacy groups told the Saratoga Springs City Council they are alarmed by ICE activity in the city and urged formal limits on police cooperation with federal immigration agents; Commissioner Cole explained the department's limits and said ICE informed police of enforcement activity earlier in the day.
Multiple Saratoga Springs residents and local advocacy groups told the City Council they are alarmed by immigration‑enforcement operations in the city and urged local policy changes to protect due process and prevent detentions without judicial warrants.
Speakers at the council’s public comment period, including Otis Maxwell of the Saratoga Springs Democratic Committee, Alice Smith and Jim Thompson (who read the committee’s recommendations), Terry Diggory of the Saratoga Immigration Coalition and other residents, asked the council to adopt formal policies limiting local police cooperation with federal immigration agents, to require advanced notification from ICE for enforcement operations and to expand legal aid and…
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