Pittsburgh lawmakers are introducing legislation Tuesday limiting the city’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.District 5 Councilwoman Barb Warwick is sponsoring the bill, and spoke with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 ahead of the city council meeting. She said she wants to make it clear that the city will not collaborate with ICE. “The mayor has said it. Our chief of police is committed to it. And now at city council, we are going to codify it,” Warwick said.She explained some of the points in the legislation, which would ensure city police would not ask anyone’s immigration status, including when someone is detained.”So, if Pittsburgh police have detained you, they are not to share your information with immigration enforcement,” Warwick said.It would also require city police to ask for identification from those who may appear to look like ICE agents. “If they come across, let’s say, armed masked men in outfits that look like police, that they make sure that they get identification,” she said. “We don’t want to be living in a city where just someone can pull up on your car and pull you out of a car, just because they’re dressed up like some type of law enforcement. Right? So, we need law enforcement agents to have identification to be able to identify themselves.”The legislation would also create safe spaces in the city. “Facilities everywhere from our police stations to our rec centers to our parks are not going to be able not going to be available for ICE to use to do their work,” said Warwick.The legislation will be introduced Tuesday. Warwick said it will then be discussed at next Wednesday’s meeting.

PITTSBURGH —

Pittsburgh lawmakers are introducing legislation Tuesday limiting the city’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

District 5 Councilwoman Barb Warwick is sponsoring the bill, and spoke with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 ahead of the city council meeting.

She said she wants to make it clear that the city will not collaborate with ICE.

“The mayor has said it. Our chief of police is committed to it. And now at city council, we are going to codify it,” Warwick said.

She explained some of the points in the legislation, which would ensure city police would not ask anyone’s immigration status, including when someone is detained.

“So, if Pittsburgh police have detained you, they are not to share your information with immigration enforcement,” Warwick said.

It would also require city police to ask for identification from those who may appear to look like ICE agents.

“If they come across, let’s say, armed masked men in outfits that look like police, that they make sure that they get identification,” she said. “We don’t want to be living in a city where just someone can pull up on your car and pull you out of a car, just because they’re dressed up like some type of law enforcement. Right? So, we need law enforcement agents to have identification to be able to identify themselves.”

The legislation would also create safe spaces in the city.

“Facilities everywhere from our police stations to our rec centers to our parks are not going to be able not going to be available for ICE to use to do their work,” said Warwick.

The legislation will be introduced Tuesday. Warwick said it will then be discussed at next Wednesday’s meeting.