Jacob Frey
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Sure.
Minneapolis and St.
Paul and Duluth and New York City, Chicago is a strong mayor system where the executive runs the day-to-day operations and the council is like the Congress.
That's exactly right.
So the police, for instance, report up through the commissioner, ultimately.
I appoint the commissioner of safety and the police of chief, the chief of police.
Well, you're asking all the right questions.
So we have had what is called a separation ordinance in place well before my time.
Right.
It's been quite some time.
And it's virtually been the same throughout that entire time period.
The council amended it a little bit recently, but it's virtually the same thing.
And the basis of it is this, is that our police officers, our officials at the city of Minneapolis,
do not coordinate with any federal agency around immigration enforcement work.
So in other words, we will not work with ICE or any other federal agency that has been deputized around immigration enforcement work.
We do work with them around general safety, crime prevention, driving down homicides, that kind of stuff.
And we also won't ask people as to their documentation status.
And so when we haven't asked somebody their documentation status, we haven't gathered any information.
And because we haven't gathered any information, when Donald Trump or anybody else asks us for all of our information, our answer is quite simple, which is we don't have it.
For purposes of safety, it doesn't.