Dallas police officers said they have been worried lately. Undocumented immigrants deportation The Trump administration will cause people living here to fear interaction with law enforcement.
That’s why there’s a series of meetings that began Wednesday night to reassure the North Texas immigrant community that officers are not part of deportation attacks or arrests.
Three meetings were held at DFW. One of Irving, the other in a white settlement, and the other in a church in southeastern Dallas featuring interim chief Michael Igo of the Dallas Police Department.
In her 37 years as a pastor at a Pentecostal church in Dallas, Sarita Rico said she had never seen her congregation.
“They just want to work,” Rico said. “They just want to do something for their families. They don’t want to think about being deported or anything like that.”
The pastor said she doesn’t know how many of her church admirers are illegally in the United States, but she has noticed that some have stopped attending services.
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“Some families are afraid to send their children to school,” Rico said.
During Wednesday night service, a delegation of Dallas police officers led by IGO said, “The Dallas Police Department is not supporting federal agencies in detaining people who have not been documented or documented in the city of Dallas. ” he said.
The Chief assures Spanish-speaking parishioners that no one here illegally submits or reports any person who is here that his department calls 911 or is pulled for a traffic violation. I was about to try.
He also said federal immigration officials assured him that no arrests or raids would take place at churches, schools or hospitals.
“I need to keep calling the police, not be afraid to leave your home and go to work, and send your kids to school,” Igo said.
The IGO warned that undocumented migrants with active criminal warrants are at risk of deportation.
“If someone had committed a crime long ago and the person still has a warrant, there’s a very good chance they’ll be taken for that,” Igo said.
Dallas Police will hold four more of these presentations over the next eight days.
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