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Residents tell Beaumont council recent ICE detentions are sowing fear in immigrant community
Summary
Multiple speakers at public comment urged the Beaumont City Council to clarify local cooperation with ICE after several local detentions; speakers described documented residents being detained and called for transparency about city and county roles.
During the public-comment portion of the Oct. 14 meeting, several residents and advocates told the Beaumont City Council that recent immigration-enforcement activity has caused fear and confusion in immigrant and mixed-status families.
Rose Rendell and other speakers recounted incidents in which people with documentation or U.S. citizenship were detained by federal immigration agents. Rendell said that in one case a man who was a permanent legal resident was detained while attempting to produce documents that would show his legal status. "They were told that…
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