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Saint Paul council holds emotional public hearing on federal immigration operations, schedules policy discussion
Summary
Residents and organizers urged the City to strengthen its separation ordinance after reports of federal immigration activity and the fatal shooting of a community member; councilmembers scheduled a policy committee discussion on Jan. 14 to advance ordinance revisions.
The Saint Paul City Council held an extended public hearing on Jan. 7 on grievances about federal immigration operations after a fatal shooting in the region, hearing multiple residents and organizers who urged the city to tighten limits on local cooperation with federal authorities.
At the hearing, residents described neighborhood encounters they attributed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents, and called for concrete municipal protections including bans on use of city property and data for civil immigration enforcement, restrictions on police crowd-control support for ICE actions, and stronger identification rules for officers. Heather C. Lou, who identified herself as a Ward 6…
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