Board of Supervisors advances three items limiting ICE practices, capabilities

Supervisors move to block ICE use of county property, ban federal agents wearing masks

After more than an hour of emotional testimony from residents invoking history and civil rights, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4–1 Tuesday to draft ordinances aimed at limiting federal immigration enforcement in the county. Raine Ikagawa said the current climate reminded her of one from 80 years ago under which she, a first-generation Japanese-American, could have been sent to the former federal prison camp on Mt. Lemmon — now the G…

Board of Supervisors advances three items limiting ICE practices, capabilities

The Pima County Board of Supervisors moved Tuesday to draft a series of measures aimed at restricting how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE, operates within the county and issued a formal expression of opposition to a proposed ICE detention center in the neighboring town of Marana.In a 4-1 vote during the boards Tuesday morning session, supervisors agreed to direct county staff to prepare ordinances that would ban …