GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — People in West Michigan are calling for leaders to reject cooperation with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a woman was shot and killed by an agent in Minneapolis.
More than a dozen people showed up to the Kent County Commission meeting Thursday morning. Some shared personal connections to immigrants and others had more passionate pleas.
“We know what happened in Minneapolis yesterday. We know that’s going to come to places like Grand Rapids and Kent County if we don’t step in and do something and we’d like you as elected officials to do what the mayor of Minneapolis said which is ‘ICE can get the (expletive) out of my city.’ We need you to do the same thing,” Jeff Smith, GR Rapid Response to ICE organizer, told commissioners…