The Amherst City Council voted Monday night time to move a decision urging Massachusetts state and native officers to carry federal officers, together with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers, accountable once they violate Massachusetts legal regulation. Of the councilors who voted, the vote was unanimous with 9 councilors in assist. Two councilors abstained and two have been absent from the vote.
Learn extra concerning the decision and why it issues:
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“I hope Amherst’s decision kicks off a wave of comparable resolutions in cities and cities throughout the state,” stated the measure’s lead sponsor.
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“Silence is complicity,” Brevik stated. “It’s our job to guarantee that we’re saying this stuff loudly as a type of safety, to say if ICE brokers commit crimes like we’ve seen them commit throughout the nation and once more right here in Massachusetts, that they are going to be prosecuted.”
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“When our constitutional rights, our civil liberties and our very lives come beneath assault by Trump’s lawless brokers, we’d like each public official to face with the folks to combat again,” stated Amherst resident Jeff Conant, who helped manage public assist for the decision. “This widespread sense decision by our city council ought to function a mannequin for each city and metropolis within the Commonwealth and throughout the nation.”
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“It’s not merely symbolic,” stated Josna Rege of District 1. “It requires actions that may make an actual distinction within the lives of our residents, a lot of whom are in disaster, afraid to talk up for concern they’ll change into the following goal.”
