Leah White of Providence holds up an anti-ICE sign she drew inside the Providence City Council chamber on Oct. 6, 2025. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
Rhode Island’s capital city is one step closer to tightening its rules on how local police interact with U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel.
The Providence City Council on Thursday unanimously granted its first passage of a series of rewrites to the city’s Community-Police Relations Act as a way to further to protect the city’s immigrant community from the Trump administration’s arrest and deportation agenda…