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Residents urge York City Council to adopt local protections as ICE presence draws concern
Summary
Multiple York City residents urged the council to take concrete steps to protect immigrant residents, including ordinances requiring warrants for ICE detentions and banning masked agents and unmarked vehicles, saying federal enforcement has grown more visible and is eroding community trust.
Multiple York City residents told the City Council on Feb. 3 that they are frightened by what they described as an increasing local presence of federal immigration enforcement and urged the council to adopt ordinances to protect immigrant residents.
Alyssa Jackson, a York City resident, said demonstrators dressed in black had come to show solidarity with immigrant neighbors and argued that "our constitutional rights are being violated in this country by ICE." She told the council the agency’s presence in the community "seems to be increasing" and said that residents are "too afraid to leave their homes."
Travis Fisher, an art teacher in the York City School District, asked the council to consider four…
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