US Immigration

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.