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Immigrant defense groups condemned Detroit Mike Duggan on Wednesday to call illegal “illegal” immigrants or what they called “the word me.”
Liberal activist groups and public figures have asked that illegal immigrants not be described as such, but want them to be called “undocumented” or “unauthorized” immigrants.
As some locations plan to resist the efforts of the Trump administration for eliminate illegal criminal immigrants, Duggan has said that Detroit is not a sanctuary city and that he would not protect those who are illegally here.
The mayor of Detroit, Mike Duggan, spoke at the National Democratic Convention of 2024. (YouTube channel of PBS Newshour)
“ICE has a list of who are looking for who are illegal immigrants, who have committed crimes,” said Duggan, a former Democrat became independent, last week. “And when one of the people we have arrested, they will communicate with us. And if we have them in custody in the Detroit detention center, we will deliver them to the ice.”
According The Detroit News, Nine Michigan organizations that work with immigrants denounced the mayor for “describing undocumented immigrants as” illegal. “
“The use of the mayor of Word I is inappropriate, dehumanizing and an insult to the ancient communities of immigrants of Detroit,” the organizations wrote in a press release seen by the local media.
According to reports, Duggan was ignored criticism as mere “political correction” in an email, according to The Detroit News.
Migrants from a caravan in Tapachula, state of Chiapas, Mexico, March while they are heading to the United States border on January 20, 2025 (Isaac Guzman/AFP through Getty Images)
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“(W) when the Detroit police make a criminal arrest and DPD receives a federal notification that the person in custody is in the country illegally, we should not and we do not protect it from the federal application,” he said.
“The groups that oppose this position criticize me today for the political correction of my statements, but I do not apologize for providing a clear explanation of Detroit’s position. It is a position that we have constantly followed through the Obama administrations, Trump Trump And Biden. ” Duggan added.
