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Resolution, Federal Agencies Conduct
Driscoll, Gadus, Jones, Komives, Kramer, Martinez
Title
To urge all federal agencies and their employees, officers, and agents to conduct themselves in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, and the below recommendations when engaging in civil immigration enforcement in the City of Toledo; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
WHEREAS, the City of Toledo desires to promote policies that advance public safety, inclusion, accountability, and public trust; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, has deployed thousands of federal agents in large-scale operations across the country; and
WHEREAS, according to first-hand accounts and widespread media coverage, these deployments included federal agents engaging in racial profiling, intimidation, and harassment of the country's immigrant and refugee communities; and
WHEREAS, federal agents have also been engaging with residents legally protesting across the country, and in many cases, have been combative and escalatory in their actions. Agents have used gas munitions and other less-than-lethal crowd control measures on peaceful protestors and, in the course of both immigration enforcement and crowd control activities, have shot and/or killed twelve residents since September 2025; and
WHEREAS, DHS and other federal agencies are actively avoiding public accountability for their personnel by allowing face coverings and lack of visible identification for agents conducting civil immigration enforcement; and
WHEREAS, DHS is also putting its own agents at risk by not appropriately training many of the personnel deployed across the country in both immigration enforcement and crowd control methods. According to several news outlets, ICE allowed several hundred agents to advance without full federal law enforcement training due to computer error and has dramatically reduced its st...
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