Collingdale Borough Council, in a 3-2 vote, has gone on record rejecting local police cooperation with federal agents in activities related to the enforcement of civil immigration laws. The borough, however, said it would cooperate if federal agents had a legitimately legal criminal warrant.
The call for clarification came in the wake of a series of incidents in which federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have shot and killed U.S. citizens protesting their actions, including the high-profile killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in January.
Similar measures have been passed by local municipalities aimed at preventing their police departments from entering into so-called 287(g) agreements authorized under the Immigration and Nationality Act that deputize state and local law enforcement agencies to assist ICE in limited immigration enforcement duties…