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BY K.RAMBO @iowastatedaily.com Is Ames a “sanctuary city?”
Short answer: there is no short answer. On June 27, the Ames City Council approved the Resolution Reaffirming the Public Safety Function of Local Law Enforcement for the City of Ames. The resolution restates that the Ames Police Department does not enforce federal immigration laws and to the city’s knowledge, never has. The goal of the resolution is to reaffirm that local law enforcement is concerned with protecting residents of Ames more than detaining and deporting those who are undocumented. While policies that regard safety and communication as more important than immigration status are often referred to as “sanctuary policies,” whether this policy is technically a sanctuary policy remains unclear. Also included in the resolution is that it does not “prohibit, or in any way restrict, any official or employee of the City of Ames from sending to or receiving from, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual (8 U.S.C. Section
1373).” This sentence within the resolution states the City of Ames will still transmit and receive information concerning immigration and citizenship status to and from ICE, if requested. The language is based on and references 8 U.S.C. Section 1373. 8 U.S.C. Section 1373 vaguely outlines the policies on how citizenship and immigration information must be transferred to and from the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). The INS was eliminated in 2003. The functions of the INS were distributed to ICE, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The resolution passed in Ames is a verbatim copy of a resolution passed in Iowa City on Jan. 17. On three separate instances spanning January and February, ICE listed the resolution in their currently-suspended Declined Detainer Outcome Report as limiting cooperation with federal law enforcement. There is no clear legal definition of a sanctuary city or jurisdiction, but the Trump administration has left a trail of breadcrumbs that lead to an apparent definition. One of the earliest and most
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