ICE PROTESTORS RAGE ON IN HOUSTON'S CITY COUNCIL - ENDS WITH MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE WALKING OUT
- Michael Thervil
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Written by Michael Thervil
[Houston City Council ICE Mayor John Whitmire] ICE Protestors their anger with the Houston Police Department’s cooperation with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) due to the several controversial shootings of ICE protestors around the country and specifically with Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minnesota. While typically at City Hall meetings Houston residents get two minutes to speak, Houstonians were only given one minute to speak and address their grievances to Mayor Whitmire and the City Council due to the exceptionally large number of people who signed to speak.
While Mayor John Whitmire has openly stated in the past during last night's encounter with residents at City Hall that the Houston Police Department will only engage in limited cooperation with ICE via notifying ICE of people that they may encounter that have a warrant for their arrest issued by ICE. It was revealed in a Press Release in November of last year by the Department of Homeland Security that there have been over “3,500 Criminal Illegal Aliens in Houston, including the Worst of the Worst Pedophiles, Gang Members, and Murderers” within a span of six weeks.
It was also stated in the same Press Release that: “ICE officers are facing a 1,000% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats, but they refuse to bend the knee to threats of violence and lies from sanctuary activists and the mainstream media”. Despite that, citizens and people living in America, specifically Houston, seem to not care and have publicly condemned Mayor Whitmire, the Houston City Council, and the Houston Police Department collaborating with ICE agents and have taken the position that they are not “doing enough” to protect families that have immigrated to America.
Yesterday’s City Council meeting ended with Mayor John Whitmire adjuring it early and walking out on protestors as both he and protestors were to properly engage in meaningful dialogue.
OUR POSITION AT VEDA WORLD NEWS
American citizens, but citizens of Houston in particular are failing to see the big picture. What we mean by that is people are failing to understand that there are differences between how local police and the federal government engages in policing. Whereas local police have limited power action due to them only being able to enforce local and state laws, the federal government can not only enforce local and state laws, but they also have the power to enforce federal law across the entire united states. Within that framework, when it comes to the use of deadly force, although both types of law-enforcement utilize it as a tool of last resort, federal law-enforcement authorities tend to specialize in more dangerous encounters that may cause them to engage in deadly force more frequently. This is despite local law-enforcement engaging in the use of deadly force at a much higher rate than federal law-enforcement agents and officers.
It should also be understood that if local governing bodies like Mayor John Whitmire’s administration and the Houston City Council refuse to work with federal law enforcement in the capture and deportation of illegal aliens and violent immigrants, then the much-needed federal funding that many Houstonians rely on can and will be cut as a ramification. Currently Houston has an estimated $88.9 billion in funding from the federal government and if the federal government were to cut that funding, it would drastically affect key sectors such as disaster recovery, infrastructure, and health. Energy, oil and gas, education, employment, childcare, WIC, Medicaid, Medicare, and food stamps (now called SNAP). In a city like Houston, where the infrastructure is crumbling, and mass lay-offs taking place, and children not being educated to the appropriate standard, it would be wise for the administration of Mayor Whitmire to choose the lesser of two necessary evils and continue to work with ICE on a limited basis.
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