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Residents urge Flathead County commissioners to refuse cooperation with ICE, DHS and CBP
Summary
At Monday's Flathead County meeting a string of residents told commissioners to stop sharing data or resources with ICE, DHS and CBP, citing constitutional and human-rights concerns and urging withdrawal from cooperative agreements such as 287(g).
A series of residents used the meeting’s public comment period on Jan. 26 to press Flathead County commissioners to refuse cooperation with federal immigration agencies, saying local resources and police assistance should not support ICE, Customs and Border Protection or the Department of Homeland Security.
"No data sharing, no collaboration, not 1 dollar of our resources for their deportation machine, period," said Marcela Cloud of 415 West 3rd Street in Whitefish. Cloud told commissioners they "work for us, the people of this…
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