San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones on Friday said she will ask City Manager Erik Walsh to explore options for ending the police department’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Her comments to the Current came hours after Houston Mayor John Whitmire signed an executive order calling on that city’s police department to contact ICE only if a person is arrested for a jailable offense and also has an administrative immigration warrant. The move came after Gov. Greg Abbott’s defeat in Tuesday’s election.
“It’s important that we are making sure our police officers are focused on what their mission is, which is keeping us safe and not taking on other responsibilities that they’re not trained for and that actually make the community less safe when people are afraid to call the police,” Jones said…