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Residents urge Medina City Council to oppose proposed Ohio immigration bills during packed public comment
Summary
Dozens of residents urged Medina City Council on March 23 to oppose several Ohio bills they said would force local cooperation with ICE and risk racial profiling; council heard emotional personal accounts and legal objections but took no formal action on a city resolution that night.
Dozens of Medina-area residents pressed the Medina City Council on March 23 to oppose a set of proposed Ohio laws they said would expand local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and threaten civil liberties.
At a lengthy public-comment period, speakers named specific measures — referenced in testimony as House Bill 26, House Bill 42, House Bill 281 and Senate Bill 172 — and urged the council to adopt a resolution opposing those bills. "These proposals weaken local democracy, undermine equal protection and expand surveillance and policing powers in ways that target vulnerable people," said Nola Lother, who identified herself as a Medina resident and asked council members to reject the…
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