SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Police Department responded to requests to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel three times in a recent three-week span—including on March 30 at the airport, when a detainee “became uncooperative.”
Details of those law enforcement assists were outlined in a memo provided to the city manager’s office by SAPD Chief William McManus on April 1 and made available to view publicly. It accounts for every such instance that San Antonio police responded to an ICE request for help between Jan. 22 and April 1.
McManus’s decision to release the information comes amid continuing national scrutiny over federal immigration enforcement tactics as well as uncertainty on the part of city leaders over how exactly an east-side detention facility run by ICE will be used…