In the midst of an ongoing
discussion over immigration policy,
the Washtenaw County Board of
Commissioners unanimously voted
in favor of supporting a Michigan
House of Representatives bill
extending immigrants’ civil rights
protection Wednesday.
As one of the largest counties
in the state of Michigan, state
Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor,
emphasized how significant it is
that the county advocates in favor
of the legislation in order to garner
more support statewide.
“Washtenaw is part of the
broader discussion,” Rabhi said.
“We’re one of the larger counties
in the state of Michigan and having
our voice at the table as (the) state
government has this discussion is
extremely important.”
State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud,
D-Dearborn, has partnered with
numerous organizations across the
state including Michigan United,
American Civil Liberties Union
and Emgage to introduce the
House bill, which would prevent
local governments from using their
own resources to enforce federal
immigration laws.
According to Hammoud, the
bill would not only make Michigan
a more “welcoming state,” but it
would also prevent distrust from
brewing in the community and its
local police force.
“First and foremost, a local
community
police
force
does
not receive any resources from
the government to do the job of
federal
immigration
officers,”
Hammoud said. “So, we should
not stretch an already stretched
police force to take on new roles.
Secondly, when police officers in
the community start taking on
the roles of immigration officials,
they break the trust and bond they
have within communities — largely
within communities of color and
immigration communities.”
Like Hammoud, LSA senior
Leena Ghannam said they believe
this legislation could be a step in
the right direction to mending
Washtenaw
County’s
already
strained relationship with local
law enforcement. Ghannam cited
the death of Aura Rosser, an Ann
Arbor resident who was fatally
shot in 2014 by Ann Arbor Police
Officer David Reid, as a catalyst for
residents’ distrust with the local
police force.
“I
think
that
the
people
in
Washtenaw
County
have
distrusted the police immensely,”
Ghannam said. “(Rosser’s) death
represented
a
fundamental
problem with police, not only
because of their abundant racial
and gender profiling, but also their
willingness to breach privacy and
act violently. The greater
Ann Arbor area will develop
a better relationship with
the police if the police show
that they are actually here
to protect the community.”
In addition to the House
bill,
other
prospective
legislation include a bar on
stop-and-search
policies
without
reasonable
suspicion, a bill that prevents
immigration hold requests
in county jails, a proposal to
provide legal assistance to
immigrants for deportation
hearings
and
multiple
proposals that would restrict
state schools and universities
from refusing admission due
to immigration status.
For Ghannam, allowing
immigrants
the
equal
opportunity to study at
Michigan
universities
is essential, due to the
state’s
incredibly
diverse
population.
With
this
education, she believes the
state could help immigrants
navigate the lengthy process
of becoming a U.S. citizen.
“The
University
of
Michigan is an institution that
should give universal access to
deserving
students,”
Ghannam
said.
“Immigration
policy
constantly shifts to what the nation
and federal administration fears
most at any given moment. I believe
that undocumented students are
innocent — they are not criminals.
A safe pathway to citizenship can
more easily occur if undocumented
immigrants are allowed equal
opportunity to study and work in
the United States.”
According to the Office of
Financial
Aid,
the
University
“welcomes the application and
enrollment
of
undocumented
students” and offers a pathway for
undocumented students to receive
in-state
tuition.
Additionally,
advocacy groups like Student
Community
of
Progressive
Empowerment work to promote
resources
for
undocumented
students and build a sense of
community on campus.
Despite local support, House
and Senate Republicans have rolled
out counter bills such as the “Local
Government Law Enforcement
Protection Act and the County Law
Enforcement Protection Act” that
would ignore local laws preventing
peace officers or local officials from
working with federal authorities
regarding
an
individual’s
immigration status.
One of the sponsors of the
bill, state Rep. Beau LaFave,
R-Iron Mountain, believes state
officers have a duty to honor the
federal
government’s
requests
if an individual is wanted by the
government.
“The problem in our republic is
if one state says they’re a sanctuary
state and says ‘You want to come
here, so we’re going to give you a
driver’s license and be included in
all of the benefits of this state, then
the immigration laws of California
are superseding that of Iowa,
and that is not appropriate in a
republic,” LaFave said.
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Trade Center collapses after attack
September 12, 2001
Students were left stunned,
saddened and frantic to reach friends
and family yesterday morning after
a pair of hijacked airliners slammed
into and demolished both towers
of New York City’s World Trade
Center. The attack is the worst
terrorist episode ever carried out in
the United States.
Television stations carried live
footage of the buildings’ collapse,
including pictures of a hijacked
Boeing 757 slamming into the
south tower. The attack began at
about 8:45 a.m., and by 10:30 a.m.
both buildings were absent from
the city’s skyline. In Washington,
about 100 people died when a plane
crashed into the Pentagon.
“Our society changes as of today.
This is a watershed event,” said Law
Prof. Robert Precht, the attorney
for one of the four men convicted of
bombing the World Trade Center in
1993.
“I’m overwhelmed. I kind of
wish I was back in the city – I can’t
reach my friends, the lines are
down. I used to work down there,
on the 82nd floor of the World
Trade Center… I don’t know if any of
my co-workers actually survived,”
said Phillip Ng, an LSA sophomore
from New York.
Classes for the day were canceled
around
noon.
About
15,000
students attended a vigil in the Diag
last night, shortly after President
George Bush made his first address
from the Oval Office.
“I’m a former student from
(New York University) and I’m still
waiting to hear from people,” said
LSA sophomore Anna Szymanski at
the vigil. “One NYU dorm is a block
away from the trade center - I’m
praying every-one is safe.”
At the Michigan Union shortly
after the bombing, LSA freshman
Aubair Simonson purchased a
poster of the New York City skyline.
“I’m going to hang it. I’m never
going to forget this day,” he said. “All
we have left now of the World Trade
Center, which is almost the center-
piece of the New York skyline which
I love, is just pictures.”
In Ann Arbor, city and federal
buildings also closed around noon.
So many people responded to a call
to donate blood, hospitals were
forced to turn them away.
The events began to unfold
early yesterday morning, when
knife-wielding hijackers sent the
two planes into the twin 110-story
towers. The deadly calamity was
witnessed on televisions across the
world as another plane slammed
into the Pentagon, and a fourth
crashed outside Pittsburgh.
Said Adm. Robert J. Natter,
commander of the U.S. Atlantic
Fleet: “We have been attacked like
we haven’t since Pearl Harbor.”
Establishing the U.S. death toll
could take weeks. The four airliners
alone had 266 people aboard and
there were no known survivors.
At the Pentagon, about 100 people
were believed dead.
In addition, a firefighters union
official said he feared an estimated
200 firefighters had died in rescue
efforts at the trade center - where
50,000 people worked - and dozens
of police officers were believed
missing.
“The number of casualties will
be more than most of us can bear,”
a visibly distraught Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani said.
No one took responsibility for
the attacks that rocked the seats
of finance and government. But
federal authorities identified Osama
bin Laden, who has been given
asylum by Afghanistan’s Taliban
rulers, as the prime suspect.
Aided
by
an
intercept
of
communications
between
his
supporters and harrowing cell
phone calls from at least one flight
attendant and two passengers
aboard the jetliners before they
crashed,
U.S.
officials
began
assembling a case linking bin Laden
to the devastation.
“I think Bush and the people
around him really don’t understand
what is going on in world politics,”
said University political science
Prof. Emeritus J. David Singer.
“This might help because it’s a
demonstration that America is so
vulnerable to other kinds of attacks
and weapons and that defense
against missiles should be low
priority.”