A Texas mayor has instructed police to limit their cooperation with ICE under a new policy that narrows the circumstances in which officers will inform the immigration agency about an individual.
The policy means police will provide information to ICE only about people who have been arrested for offences that are punishable by imprisonment. It does not extend the same notification to all people who come into contact with police.
The change follows a Democratic sweep of Texas. The supplied information does not identify the mayor, the city affected or when the policy was introduced.
The latest position is that police cooperation with ICE will be restricted according to the seriousness of the alleged offence, with notifications limited to arrests involving jailable offences.
