A reported surge in immigration enforcement activity in the Sacramento region has renewed calls from local activists for police to stop “colluding” with ICE, an accusation that the department has emphatically and repeatedly denied.
But a Tuesday post from the immigration advocacy group NorCal Resist prompted Sacramento City Manager Maraskeshia Smith to formally limit the police department’s response to federal agents’ requests for service.
NorCal Resist alleges that on Tuesday morning Sacramento police officers conducted a traffic stop on lawful observers of ICE enforcement in south Sacramento, detaining them for 20 minutes. The observers then encountered the same officers meeting with what appears to be a masked federal agent a few blocks away, according to NorCal Resist…