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To urge all federal agencies and their employees, officers, and agents to follow standards of conduct substantially similar with those recommended by the City of Columbus Commission on Immigrant & Refugee Affairs when engaging in civil immigration enforcement activities with all residents of the City of Columbus
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WHEREAS, the city of Columbus Commission on Immigrant & Refugee Affairs (CIRA) was established to advise the Mayor and City Council on matters affecting the immigrant and refugee community, and to promote policies that advance inclusion, accountability, and public trust; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has deployed thousands of federal agents in large-scale operations across the country, including here in Columbus in what was known as “Operation Buckeye”; and
WHEREAS, according to first-hand accounts and widespread media coverage and analysis, these deployments included federal agents engaging in widespread racial profiling, intimidation, and harassment of the country’s immigrant and refugee communities; and
WHEREAS, federal agents have also been engaging with residents protesting across the country, and in many cases, have been combative and escalatory in their actions. Agents have used gas munitions and other less-than-lethal crowd control measures on peaceful protestors and, in the course of both immigration enforcement and crowd control activities, have shot and/or killed twelve residents just since September 2025; and
WHEREAS, DHS and other federal agencies are actively avoiding public accountability for their personnel by allowing face coverings and lack of identification for agents conducting civil immigration enforcement; and
WHEREAS, DHS is also putting its own agents at risk by not appropriately training many of the personnel deployed across the country in both immigration enforcement and crowd control meth...
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