The Dallas Police Department (DPD) has started with organizing a series of outreach meetings to inform immigrant communities that the agency will not participate in deportation -raids or arrests currently carried out by the Trump government.
At least five meetings take place, with the first start on Wednesday and the rest runs until 20 February, according to the DPD Facebook page.
On Wednesday, DPD -Interim -Chef Michael Igo tried to mitigate the fear that was due to local immigrant communities that the forces of immigrations and customs enforcement (ICE) (ICE) will help with the deportation efforts, which have been refurbished under the Trump administration.
Chief Igo said his department would not hand in or report someone in the country illegally who calls 911 for help. (Fox News/Istock)
“The Dallas police do not help a federal agency to hold people who have been documented or undocumented in the city of Dallas,” Igo told visitors to Familia Bethel Internacional Church in Dallas, by CBS News.
Igo, who has been an interim chief of police since October, told the Spanish-speaking parishioners that his department would not hand in or report someone here illegal That 911 calls for help or is persuaded for traffic violations.
“I want you to keep calling the police, not to be afraid to get out of your houses to go to work, to send our children to school,” said Igo.
He also assured the parishioners that no arrests or raids would be carried out in churches, schools or hospitals, although he said that immigrants with excellent warrants would probably be confronted with deportation.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) knocks on the door of an alleged suspect during an ice raid in Chicago, Illinois. The Dallas police chief said that his department would not hand in or report anyone in the country illegally who calls 911 for help. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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IGO also went to X last night to inform his message that DPD would not collaborate with federal immigration officials.
“There is no room for fear in our community,” Igo wrote on X. “I meet stakeholders in Dallas to reassure them, we are here to serve and protect all residents of Dallas and are dedicated to maintaining city ordinances and state laws. “
It is not the first time that IGO has made public comments that are contrary to the Trump government.
President Donald Trump and deported migrants from Colombia. (Jim Watson/AFP, Left and Colombian government)
At the end of last month, IGO placed a video message to X and said that all residents would be treated the same, regardless of their immigration status.
The latest comments from IGO come as a newly sworn attorney-general Pam Bondi Trump on Wednesday a lawsuit brought Against the state of New York and its governor, Kathy Hochul, and attorney -general Letitia James, claimed not to comply with federal law by protecting illegal immigrants.
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Dallas is one of the two cities in the largest dozens of cities in the country, together with the neighbor of Texas Fort Worth, led by a Republican mayor.
Last year DPD reported a decrease of 8.2% In violent crime Everywhere in the city in 2024, including a reduction of murders by 26% compared to the previous year. The decline of murders represents 65 victims of less murder than in 2023, so that the murder of the city is brought to the lowest level since before the pandemic, according to data released by DPD.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten from Fox News has contributed to this report.
