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Residents Urge East Grand Rapids to Bar Local Immigration Enforcement, Question Surveillance and Brownfield Funding
Summary
Public commenters asked the city to prohibit local cooperation with ICE, ban deputization agreements, clarify use of surveillance cameras, and questioned using brownfield redevelopment funds for the Gaslight Investors project.
Several East Grand Rapids residents used the public-comment period to press the City Commission for clearer written protections against local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and to raise concerns about surveillance cameras and public funding for a private development.
Multiple residents requested formal policies restricting local law-enforcement cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Kristen Harnsell said the city…
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