Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has declared his administration will not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He criticizes ICE for exacerbating fear and insecurity within immigrant communities and advocates for legislative reform, including a pathway to citizenship. Gainey's stance comes amidst reports of an ICE raid on a Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh, though the city claims to have no evidence of such activity.
Mayor Ed Gainey speaks during his inaugural ceremony as the 61st mayor of the city of Pittsburgh and the city’s first Black mayor, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2020, at the City-County Building. “I am not going to be working with ICE . My administration will not work with ICE ,” Gainey said during a Pennsylvania Press Club event in Harrisburg, according to“ ICE is not going to end the situation of a failed immigration policy. It’s not going to do it,” he said.
“Change it through the legislation,” he said. “We know what needs to happen. Where’s the appetite to do it right?”that she was involved in the cases of two people who were detained by ICE after a raid on a Mexican Restaurant in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
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