Pima County leaders will discuss a trio of resolutions and ordinances this week that could alter how ICE operates within county lines.
One item, brought by Pima County Supervisor Jenn Allen, will look at whether the county can create an ordinance banning state, city, county and federal law enforcement officers from using masks. And requiring visible identification.
Allen says the changes will increase agents accountability — and it comes as masked ICE agents conduct enforcement operations in Tucson and around the country.
County supervisors will also discuss the possibility of a resolution against an ICE detention center planned for an old jail in the town Marana, just north of Tucson, and an ordinance prohibiting ICE agents from using county-owned property.
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Activists started occupying the cottonwood tree at the end of July, hoping to save it after the other three were felled. They hoisted a wooden platform high into its branches, and camped on private land right next to it. -
Arizona has for a long time been one of the leading states for refugee resettlement, but now with the numbers cut so low, refugees in our state and the resettlement agencies that are built up to help them adjust are feeling the impact. -
The standoff began Oct. 5, when Border Patrol agents swarmed a protest camp situated in and around a cottonwood tree slated for removal to make way for two steel border walls — the last of a border-hugging grove on the U.S. side that was estimated to be as much as 250 years old. -
His comments come after the Arizona Sheriff’s Association accused his office of refusing requests for assistance from Border Patrol. -
The Arizona Sheriff’s Association issued an open letter calling out the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office over its response to the public safety concerns surrounding the border wall construction in that area.
