{"id":477855,"date":"2026-10-27T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477855\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:12:08","slug":"residents-urge-balcones-heights-to-cancel-local-police-contract-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477855\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents urge Balcones Heights to cancel local police contract with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALCONS HEIGHTS, Texas &#8211; City leaders were urged Tuesday night to reconsider an agreement that allows local police officers to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with immigration operations.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, City Council members heard from residents calling for the Balcones Heights Police Department to end its 287(g) agreement with ICE, which allows police officers to carry out immigration duties.<\/p>\n<p>Cities that participate in the 287(g) program can receive up to $100,000 in startup funds, along with per-officer salary reimbursements and performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the agreement argued it is necessary to restore border security and close legal loopholes.<\/p>\n<p>No decision was made Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALCONS HEIGHTS, Texas &#8211; City leaders were urged Tuesday night to reconsider an agreement that allows local police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-477855","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\/477855","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=477855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}