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Residents urge Kenner City Council to bar ICE operations, say raids terrorize Latino community
Summary
Dozens of Kenner residents and community leaders called on the council to ban ICE and Border Patrol operations inside city limits and to prohibit local police from assisting, saying recent raids have frightened families, emptied parks and threatened small businesses.
Dozens of residents and community leaders used the Kenner City Council’s public-comment period on Dec. 19 to urge the council to pass ordinances preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol from operating within the city and to stop local police from assisting federal agents.
Greg Piper, who opened the comment period, told the council the community has “witnessed what can only be described as terrorist attacks committed by ICE and Border Patrol,” and called the agents’ show of force “totally unnecessary.” He asked where probable cause was for stops and said residents were…
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