OTTAWA COUNTY — West Michigan faith leaders have renewed their request that the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office and the board of commissioners publicly reassure residents after months of controversial immigration enforcement efforts nationwide by the federal government.
The letter, which was sent by Rev. Jared Cramer of Grand Haven’s St. John’s Episcopal Church, is the second effort sent to board Chair Josh Brugger and Sheriff Eric DeBoer by 60 Christian clergy from across Ottawa County asking for the elected officials to “publicly refuse to participate in or support the current model of federal immigration action in our local community.”
In the first letter, dated Feb. 5, the faith leaders asked Brugger and DeBoer to “reject the path of violence and to resist narratives that rely on fear to divide us from one another.”…