{"id":13176,"date":"2025-10-21T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:00:13","slug":"dallas-mayor-council-members-clash-over-dallas-police-rejection-of-25-million-ice-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13176\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas mayor, council members clash over Dallas police rejection of $25 million ICE offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Dallas City Council members are responding after the city’s mayor questioned the Dallas police’s<\/a>\u00a0rejection of a\u00a0$25 million federal offer<\/a>\u00a0from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

Dallas police chief rejected $25 million federal offer to help with immigration enforcement<\/p>\n

It started with a “no” from Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“No” to using Dallas police officers to find or detain suspected illegal immigration offenders by partnering with ICE agents in a federal task force operation.<\/p>\n

Dallas mayor calls for review after police chief rejects $25 million ICE offer<\/p>\n

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has called for a review<\/a> and challenged the police chief’s “no” to ICE, saying DPD could “use these funds to hire additional officers with no impact on the city’s budget.”<\/p>\n

In a written message to the city council committee chairs, Johnson added that DPD’s involvement might provide additional avenues for “keeping criminals off the streets.”<\/p>\n

Dallas city council member calls mayor’s memo “dangerous political stunt”<\/p>\n

“The mayor’s memo, his memo is a callous political stunt,” said Dallas city council member Jaime Resendez, District 5.<\/p>\n

Resendez, along with three others, issued a collective statement saying the use of police officers as ICE task force members would be “a betrayal of trust to Dallas communities.”<\/p>\n

“The mayor’s memo is misguided and dangerous,” Resendez said. “If the mayor truly wants to strengthen public safety and government efficiency, then he should be focused on proven solutions.”<\/p>\n

Dallas police chief prioritizes violent crime<\/p>\n

“We work alongside federal authorities to go after violent fugitives, drug traffickers and more,” Comeaux said in a statement. “I want to be clear: we will not prevent any agency from conducting lawful activity in Dallas, but we will remain focused on our primary mission: responding to emergencies and continuing to fight violent crime in Dallas.”<\/p>\n

City council members could discuss this collectively. The next city council meeting is on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Dallas City Council members are responding after the city’s mayor questioned the Dallas police’s\u00a0rejection of a\u00a0$25 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,4081,5305,6956],"class_list":{"0":"post-13176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-dallas-police-department","12":"tag-mayor-eric-johnson","13":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}