These civil rights abuses show the potential costs of state and local law enforcement assistance in federal immigration enforcement efforts. (businessinsider.com)
The speaker noted that under her tenure, the City Council has passed legislation significantly reducing the city's cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except in the cases of violent offenders, and that it has fully financed programs that offer universal representation to detained immigrants and unaccompanied minors and young mothers with children placed in expedited removal proceedings. (observer.com)
But immigrant advocacy groups and Democrats have expressed concern that the Trump administration will escalate immigration enforcement efforts in line with the president's tough stance toward illegal immigrants. (reuters.com)