Protesters march against planned ICE detention facility on San Antonio\u2019s East Side<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cICE is not going to stop. This agency and its contractors have demonstrated time and again it does not care about the people they arrest and detain,\u201d said Sarah Cruz of the ACLU of Texas.<\/p>\n
Councilmembers admit they have little power to stop the federal government, but they hope to at least delay the facility by ordering SAWS and CPS Energy to assess its demand for energy and water.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proposed ICE facility was built to be a supply warehouse not to detain 1,500 of our loved ones. ICE must be made to answer important questions about the city resources it will waste,\u201d said Prescilla Olivarez, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.<\/p>\n
The mayor and eight councilmembers voted to have the impact assessments done.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all have to lock arms together to push back on ICE,\u201d said District 7 Councilmember Marina Alderete Gavito.<\/p>\n
District 9 Councilmember Misty Spears and Marc Whyte who represents District 10 were the only \u201cno\u201d votes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a city council, not congress. Our responsibility is to govern San Antonio, not use our public utilities as a political instrument against the federal government,\u201d Spears said.<\/p>\n
Spears reminded councilmembers the city operated a migrant resource center a few years ago that processed thousands of people.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid we demand the same environmental, infrastructure, water, wastewater, and electricity assessments when the city was operating a migrant facility? If not, why are we demanding one now?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
District 2’s Jalen McKee-Rodriguez attached an amendment requiring SAPD, the fire department and other agencies to study the processing center’s impact on things like response times.<\/p>\n
Next week the council will hear from the city attorney about possible legal actions the city might take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A majority of the San Antonio City Council took a first step in fighting against a new ICE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-460721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460721","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=460721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}