SAN ANTONIO, TX – Local outrage is still brewing in San Antonio, Texas, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation this past November which resulted in over 140 arrests has anti-ICE activists perturbed that San Antonio Police merely provided a “perimeter” for federal officers to conduct the November operation.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, a November 16th joint operation headed by ICE with assistance from various other “federal and state law enforcement partners” resulted in the arrests of approximately 150 illegal aliens in San Antonio. Among the illegals apprehended by authorities during the operation were over two dozen suspected Tren de Aragua members, alongside others suspected of human smuggling and money laundering.
In the nearly three weeks since the San Antonio operation, anti-ICE activists within the area are apparently still seething due to the fact that the San Antonio Police Department afforded the professional courtesy of providing general perimeter security and traffic control during the November ICE operation.
Writing for the local news outlet San Antonio Express News, journalist Molly Smith notes how community members and even some elected officials like Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones “have criticized” the San Antonio Police Department for their “participation in the [November 16th] raid,” where approximately 50 officers assisted with the aforementioned traffic control and security perimeter.
On December 3rd, local Corrie Rosen who is apparently is a member of the San Antonio chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation attended a city council meeting where she stated during the portion for public comments, “Who approved SAPD's collaboration with federal agencies, whose purpose is not to protect residents but to terrorize immigrant communities?”
Rosen went on to assert during her comment that “our very city resources, funded by the very people targeted” were “weaponized against them.” It should be reiterated that the ICE operation targeted illegal immigrants residing within the country, dozens of which happened to be suspected gang members affiliated with a transnational crime syndicate notorious for murder, human trafficking, and kidnapping/ransom.
As Smith highlights in her coverage of the ongoing outrage in San Antonio over the local police outfit’s fairly standard and innocuous assistance provided to federal authorities during the November operation, it has been state law in Texas for nearly a decade that police and county sheriffs are required to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, a November 16th joint operation headed by ICE with assistance from various other “federal and state law enforcement partners” resulted in the arrests of approximately 150 illegal aliens in San Antonio. Among the illegals apprehended by authorities during the operation were over two dozen suspected Tren de Aragua members, alongside others suspected of human smuggling and money laundering.
In the nearly three weeks since the San Antonio operation, anti-ICE activists within the area are apparently still seething due to the fact that the San Antonio Police Department afforded the professional courtesy of providing general perimeter security and traffic control during the November ICE operation.
Writing for the local news outlet San Antonio Express News, journalist Molly Smith notes how community members and even some elected officials like Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones “have criticized” the San Antonio Police Department for their “participation in the [November 16th] raid,” where approximately 50 officers assisted with the aforementioned traffic control and security perimeter.
On December 3rd, local Corrie Rosen who is apparently is a member of the San Antonio chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation attended a city council meeting where she stated during the portion for public comments, “Who approved SAPD's collaboration with federal agencies, whose purpose is not to protect residents but to terrorize immigrant communities?”
Rosen went on to assert during her comment that “our very city resources, funded by the very people targeted” were “weaponized against them.” It should be reiterated that the ICE operation targeted illegal immigrants residing within the country, dozens of which happened to be suspected gang members affiliated with a transnational crime syndicate notorious for murder, human trafficking, and kidnapping/ransom.
As Smith highlights in her coverage of the ongoing outrage in San Antonio over the local police outfit’s fairly standard and innocuous assistance provided to federal authorities during the November operation, it has been state law in Texas for nearly a decade that police and county sheriffs are required to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
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