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Aurora delays final vote on ordinance barring use of city property for immigration enforcement after debate on employee reporting
Summary
A proposal to bar use of Aurora-owned property for civil immigration enforcement drew wide public turnout and lengthy council debate. The Committee of the Whole sent ordinance 25-0898 to unfinished business after disputes over mandatory employee reporting language and a separate proposal to require APD to adopt incident-reporting procedures.
The Committee of the Whole on Nov. 4 took up ordinance 25-0898, which would prohibit use of city-owned property — such as parking lots, buildings and parks — as staging, processing or operational sites for civil immigration enforcement, except where execution of a judicial warrant or other lawful authority applies. The ordinance expands on Trust Act principles already adopted in Illinois and would require the city to document attempted or actual uses of city property for civil immigration enforcement.
Chief of Staff Shannon Cameron summarized the ordinance and the proposed reporting framework, saying it is designed "to formally prohibit the use of city owned assets" for civil immigration enforcement and to document violations for referral to the…
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