Dozens of Houston residents signed up to speak before the city council Tuesday against what they described as HPD’s collaboration with ICE. According to ICE, the agency arrested about 1,300 people in the Houston area in June.
At a Houston City Council public comment session held Tuesday, more than 40 people signed up to speak about what they described as the Houston Police Department’s (HPD) collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Rob Block, a member of Houston Leads, the coalition of groups that organized the turnout, told Houston Public Media that community members “are very scared when they see any type of law enforcement activity and assume that ICE is involved.”
“It would be really great to be able to reassure Houstonians that the Houston Police Department doing police activity is not involved with ICE,” Block said. “But the current policy that we have … it’s not currently true that we can reassure the community that Houston Police Department is not working with ICE and this national campaign to deport millions of people.”…