US Immigration

Community members and small businesses around the Tri-Cities are rallying around MBS International Airport’s air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration staff as they’re put at risk for missing out on their paychecks due to the ongoing shut down of the Department of Homeland Security.

Residents packed city hall Monday night to speak out for and against resolutions that would have stopped local law enforcement from working with ICE to enforce federal immigration laws.

In a series of statements, tribal leadership reminded their communities of their rights and offered recommendations to be prepared in the event they're confronted by ICE agents.

U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Caledonia, spoke to voters over the phone Wednesday about the government shutdown, immigration and other subjects.

At last week's city commission meeting, commissioners introduced the idea of placing Mount Pleasant under an Immigrant Trust Act, more commonly known as a sanctuary city, which could limit how local law enforcement collaborates with federal immigration and customs enforcement.

In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last.

Last Wednesday, the mayor of Bay City vetoed a resolution, that would have banned deputizing local cops for federal immigration enforcement.

Some of Michigan’s undocumented migrant farmworkers are traveling to the U.S. Capitol this week to advocate for a path to citizenship that’s after a Senate official blocked immigration reforms in a budget bill.