Council members in Minneapolis have advanced a measure strengthening the city’s longstanding separation ordinance. The law already prohibits police officers and other city employees from enforcing federal immigration law. Many across the city feel an increased urgency for a local response amid the Trump Administration’s federal immigration crackdown.

The council sponsors added new language to the ordinance, emphasizing how strongly they feel about keeping city employees out of immigration enforcement.

It stresses that cooperation between the city and federal government would “have a chilling effect on immigrant populations’ willingness to report crime and cooperate with the city’s public safety efforts.”

Council Member Aurin Chowdhury, one of the sponsors, said at a committee hearing Tu

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