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Duluth residents press city council to outlaw local collaboration with ICE; councilors vow to draft ordinance
Summary
Hundreds of Duluth residents urged the City Council to pass binding ordinances banning collaboration with ICE, to end surveillance contracts and to consider an eviction moratorium. Administrator Staling pledged city staff will not carry out immigration enforcement and several councilors said they will bring ordinance language in coming weeks.
Hundreds of residents packed the Duluth City Council chambers on Monday and used the public-comment period to press elected officials for immediate local safeguards against federal immigration enforcement actions.
Multiple speakers asked the council to pass a binding ordinance that would codify a policy of noncooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. Julia Covert told the council, “If DPD truly does not assist in or intend to assist in immigration enforcement, you should have absolutely no problem passing a formal resolution that codifies that policy so we can hold the city accountable,” and several…
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