D.c. Police To Increase Cooperation With Ice As Part Of Crime Crackdown

Washington D.C. Chief of Police Pamela Smith connected Thursday issued an executive bid allowing Metropolitan Police Department officers making postulation stops to notify national Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents astir undocumented immigrants they encounter, NBC connection News 4 reported.

This is simply a departure from nan constabulary department's erstwhile argumentation and will let immigrants who person not been detained aliases charged pinch a crime to beryllium reported to ICE for imaginable apprehension and deportation.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has antecedently insisted that her metropolis is not a sanctuary metropolis because rule enforcement location has cooperated pinch ICE successful nan past.

But nan metropolis has respective pro-immigration policies connected nan books, including 1 that allows non-citizens to vote successful section elections and another that limits practice pinch national migration agencies.

Representatives for Bowser's office, D.C. constabulary and ICE did not instantly return a petition for comment.

President Donald Trump connected Monday federalized Washington, D.C.'s section constabulary department and deployed 800 National Guard troops successful an effort to ace down connected crime successful nan territory — moreover though crime rates successful nan metropolis are astatine their lowest level successful decades.

"Let maine beryllium crystal clear: Crime successful D.C. is ending and ending today," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday.

Part of Trump's action successful Washington included mobilizing national rule enforcement officers, including those from ICE, to patrol nan streets of Washington alongside Metropolitan Police Department officers.

While immoderate of nan ICE officers' activities successful nan metropolis earlier this week included regular constabulary activities that were not related to migration enforcement, officers also conducted a “targeted enforcement operation” to apprehension immigrants successful a Home Depot parking batch connected Tuesday.

Since Trump took agency successful January for his 2nd term, his management has prioritized nan wide deportation of undocumented immigrants, a cardinal run committedness nan president made past year.

ICE officers person this twelvemonth conducted raids successful awesome cities crossed nan U.S., including immoderate that prompted wide protests successful Los Angeles and crossed nan state successful June.