About 100 immigrants and supporters in the nation’s capital rallied inside and outside the Wilson Building, calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council to stop collaborating with federal immigration enforcement.

Wednesday morning, several advocacy groups said the mayor wasn’t forthcoming in September, at the end of President Donald Trump’s declared crime emergency, when she said, “Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does, and with the end of the emergency, it won’t be what MPD does in the future.”

Solomon Ayalew, local chapter director of African Communities Together, told protesters gathered in the hallway outside the council’s chambers, “Today, people are being taken from their homes, schools and workplaces in Columbia Heights, Fort Totten, places we all walk through, and

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