Members of Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE attended Kent County’s latest commissioner’s board meeting. The groups continue to demand the county adopt six sanctuary policies, including restricting the ability of state and local police to make arrests for federal immigration violations, or to detain individuals on civil immigration warrants. Jeff Smith is with GR Rapid Response to ICE.
“We’ve seen ICE activity increase. We’re getting increased number of calls from immigrants who are being threatened by ICE.”
The groups also want policies preventing immigration detention centers from being established in Kent County, including the use of the Kent County Jail as a detention facility…