The mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, has issued an govt order prohibiting his police division and different metropolis businesses from working with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Manager Eric Batista’s govt order got here shortly after the discharge of police bodycam footage of the arrest of Rozen Ferreira do Oliveira, who tried to intrude in authorized motion by Ice Agents.
Batista issued an order on May 16 to warn metropolis officers and members of the town’s police station towards ice cooperation. The order states that “native authorities workers should not take part in federal agencies-led companies solely for imposing federal immigration legal guidelines.”
The order states, “If you inquire in regards to the standing of an immigration, the standing of the immigration doesn’t have an effect on the remedy of residents, victims, suspects, arrests, 911 callers, or different members contacted by native authorities workers.”
The doc continues to order police to launch investigations and implement regulation enforcement actions based mostly solely on the idea of immigrant standing.
Batista’s orders additionally stop police from harboring suspects amongst immigrant detainees.
“No one is arrested or detained by WPD based mostly solely on federal immigrant detainees, together with extending the size of detention by time after a person is launched from native custody or earlier than being transferred to courtroom or launched on bail,” the order states.
“This order doesn’t stop a municipality or WPD from working with the federal authorities to adjust to the regulation, nor does it stop WPD from working with ICE or federal businesses on this order.”