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Council meeting gets heated in Bloomington discussing immigration legislation
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The mayor plans to do just that at the City Council meeting Wednesday.
Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35
th), who is listed as a co-sponsor of the mayor’s ordinance, called it a “great day for the immigrant- and refugee-rights community” and the culmination of a five-year battle.
“Assuming this passes, we will be able to definitively tell the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens who are family members of undocumented immigrants, ‘Do not fear to call 911 because of your immigration status,’” the alderman said.
“We will finally be able to tell them authoritatively and definitively that they should have no fear of their local police as it relates to federal immigration law enforcement because local police and ICE cannot cooperate in any single case.”