The real question is whether cops are willing to enforce this — in most places they’ve refused to arrest ICE or Border Patrol for on-duty actions except in cases of nepotism.
The real question is whether cops are willing to enforce this — in most places they’ve refused to arrest ICE or Border Patrol for on-duty actions except in cases of nepotism.
Per the local government’s ordinance summary, this is a criminal ordinance and it’s effective 30 days after passage, signature by mayor and publication in the City’s newspaper. So soonest will be late March.
I agree the question is whether the cops will enforce, but regardless, it should be done. And it gives a clear tool to local leaders to (hopefully, finally) flip the switch and start testing Constitutional boundaries by arresting ICE for criminal acts, since whatever Stephen Miller says, ICE does not have “absolute immunity” to break the law, much less violate the Constitution.