Special to The Truth
Council Member Gabriela Santiago-Romero is seeking a legal path to ban or limit federal immigration operations in Detroit after an ICE agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman this week.
Santiago-Romero said the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, was a “terrorist attack” from a “lawless” agency. Santiago-Romero submitted a memo to the council’s Legislative Policy Division during a Thursday committee hearing that would define the city’s ability to keep federal agents away from “sensitive areas” like clinics, schools, places of worship or city property.
“We need to ensure that does not happen here in Detroit,” she said Thursday. “We do hear often that people, as they’re picking up their children, as they’re going to a mosque, they’re getting picked up by ICE. Let’s have these conversations. Let’s do some work because we are in a very different place right now.”
The shooting happened less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered while being detained by Minneapolis police.
Santiago-Romero also submitted questions to the Detroit Police Department regarding its relationship with ICE. She asked for the number of times ICE requested assistance during 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.