{"id":18276,"date":"2026-01-15T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18276"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:05:25","slug":"detroit-council-member-seeks-ice-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/detroit-council-member-seeks-ice-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Council Member Seeks ICE Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Special to The Truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council Member Gabriela Santiago-Romero is seeking a legal path to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=db17bac868&amp;e=5c693831b6\">ban or limit<\/a>\u00a0federal immigration operations in Detroit after an ICE agent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=4de9fa0685&amp;e=5c693831b6\">fatally shot<\/a>\u00a0a Minneapolis woman this week.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago-Romero said the killing of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=498c27a485&amp;e=5c693831b6\">Renee Good<\/a>, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=b7ff4a80cc&amp;e=5c693831b6\">mother of three<\/a>, was a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; from a \u201clawless\u201d agency. Santiago-Romero\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=832270e048&amp;e=5c693831b6\">submitted a memo<\/a>\u00a0to the council\u2019s Legislative Policy Division during a Thursday committee hearing that would define the city\u2019s ability to keep federal agents away from \u201csensitive areas\u201d like clinics, schools, places of worship or city property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to ensure that does not happen here in Detroit,\u201d she said Thursday. \u201cWe do hear often that people, as they\u2019re picking up their children, as they\u2019re going to a mosque, they\u2019re getting picked up by ICE. Let\u2019s have these conversations. Let\u2019s do some work because we are in a very different place right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened less than a mile from where<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=60b7efd11c&amp;e=5c693831b6\">\u00a0George Floyd was murdered<\/a>\u00a0while being detained by Minneapolis police.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago-Romero also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=f100588b14&amp;e=5c693831b6\">submitted questions<\/a>\u00a0to the Detroit Police Department regarding its relationship with ICE. She asked for the number of times ICE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgedetroit.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dc0580ddb0e80e7779bcf533a&amp;id=ae09d0d707&amp;e=5c693831b6\">requested assistance<\/a>\u00a0during enforcement actions, how many ICE warrants have been shared with DPD, any instances where ICE used city lots to park vehicles and details on how DPD responds to requests to detain undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth Council Member Gabriela Santiago-Romero is seeking a legal path to\u00a0ban or limit\u00a0federal immigration operations in Detroit after an ICE agent\u00a0fatally shot\u00a0a Minneapolis woman this week. Santiago-Romero said the killing of\u00a0Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and\u00a0mother of three, was a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; from a \u201clawless\u201d agency. Santiago-Romero\u00a0submitted a memo\u00a0to the council\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[330],"class_list":["post-18276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18277,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}