Overview
- DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton and Omar Fateh signed Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee’s petition to tighten the city’s separation policy, including barring MPD from sharing information with immigration agencies and from providing crowd control for ICE.
- The petition also seeks a ban on face coverings by federal officers, directives to shelter people fleeing raids, and requirements to remove or arrest officers who hide their identity.
- Mayor Jacob Frey did not attend the event and refused to sign, with his campaign saying MPD will not assist in civil immigration enforcement and warning that ordering arrests of federal agents would be dangerous.
- Frey said he supports prohibiting masked federal agents but opposes measures that would require MPD to remove federal officers or forgo crowd-control duties during federal operations.
- A city audit in August found MPD did not violate the separation ordinance during the June 3 ICE-involved raid, the Nov. 4 mayoral election is underway with early voting, and MIRAC says its goal is to curb local support for immigration enforcement rather than end all federal-local cooperation.