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Residents urge Cottage Grove council to reconsider ICE contract and ask for immigrant‑protection resolution
Summary
Multiple residents used the council's open forum Aug. 6 to ask the Cottage Grove City Council to reconsider local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to place a resolution on the agenda that would express city policy toward immigration enforcement.
Several Cottage Grove residents urged the City Council on Aug. 6 to reconsider local arrangements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to place a proposed immigrant‑protection resolution on a future agenda.
At the council's open forum, resident Cindy Gish said she spoke as a longtime teacher and first‑generation American and asked the city not to "encourage ICE and have them here doing harm to people, scaring my students." She said her family's experience as displaced persons shaped her view that the city should…
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