After a year of massive public pressure, three Houston City Council Members have finally put forward an ordinance to limit Houston Police Department's collaboration with ICE. Even with a Democratic-majority on this City Council, we know it is not a guaranteed victory. Send a letter to demand your Council Members defend hundreds of thousands of our immigrant neighbors!

Although there is much more work to defend our immigrant communities, the ordinance addresses major failures under Mayor Whitmire.The ordinance would 1) remove the requirement for HPD officers to call ICE at traffic stops on the basis of an administrative warrant alone, 2) disallow HPD officers from prolonging a traffic stop to aid ICE, and 3) require reports to City Council on instances of HPD contacting ICE.