A Vancouver council motion to oppose deployment of American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city for the World Cup did not go to a vote after it was ruled out of order.<\/p>\n
The motion had said allowing allegedly undertrained foreign ICE agents to conduct security operations in Vancouver this summer would contradict city policies around equity, safety and access without fear, as well as Canadian rights for migrants and due process.<\/p>\n
But meeting chair Coun. Mike Klassen ruled the motion was incorrect because it supposes a deployment when it \u201chas been made clear from correspondence\u201d council received recently that ICE won\u2019t be present for the games in Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Coun. Pete Fry argued that the motion was pre-emptive, pointing out that American officials only announced plans to have ICE at this year\u2019s Olympic Games weeks before the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n
An attempt to overturn Klassen\u2019s ruling and put the motion to a vote fell one vote short of the required two-thirds.<\/p>\n
Mayor Ken Sim told council he agreed the motion was out of order.<\/p>\n
Sim issued a statement on Monday saying ICE has not been invited to operate in Vancouver for the World Cup, and are not welcome to conduct enforcement activities.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s motion by Fry and Coun. Sean Orr had said that if ICE agents are deployed to Vancouver, it could be expected to cause protests or boycotts, and potentially pose a danger to the safety of residents and visitors.<\/p>\n
It noted that ICE has an \u201cadministrative and liaison presence\u201d at the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver, but that U.S. law-enforcement agencies cannot operate in Canada without explicit government authorization.<\/p>\n
If the motion had passed, it would have directed Sim to write to federal Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand, requesting that they reject any additional deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver council motion to oppose deployment of American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-499461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}