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Residents urge Livingston County commissioners to rescind 'anti-immigrant' tracking resolution
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Livingston County Board of Commissioners to rescind a September resolution they described as discriminatory and likely to prompt racial profiling, leaving written materials with the clerk when translations were limited at the meeting.
Dozens of residents used the meeting's public-comment periods to urge the Livingston County Board of Commissioners to rescind a resolution the speakers described as "anti immigrant" and discriminatory.
Speakers from Kent and other Michigan counties told commissioners they feared the resolution — described during comments as directing the county to monitor and document contacts between "illegal immigrants" and the sheriff's office — would encourage racial profiling and put civil rights at risk. Hema,…
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