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Seattle residents urge City Council to end cooperation with ICE, ban surveillance and issue municipal IDs
Summary
Dozens of residents at the Jan. 13 Seattle City Council meeting urged immediate action to stop collaboration with ICE, remove surveillance tools and create municipal identification cards; council president offered to meet and later recessed the meeting after a heated exchange.
Dozens of residents used the Seattle City Council public-comment period on Jan. 13 to demand the city end cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, remove surveillance systems they say aid federal tracking, and create municipal identification cards to protect immigrant residents.
Speakers representing groups such as Workers' Strike Back and the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression repeatedly called on Mayor Katie Wilson and the council to “stop all collaboration with ICE, period,” and to back immediate, concrete steps including municipal IDs and bans on sharing surveillance data. "Mayor Wilson and the city council could declare today that the city of Seattle is stopping all collaboration with ICE, period," said Justin, a Queen Anne resident and a member of Workers' Strike Back.
The demand for action was driven in part by recent incidents cited by speakers, including the alleged killing of…
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