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It doesn’t mean ICE will stop operating in DC. It just means that local police officers will no longer provide ICE with information.
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s 30-day emergency control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police comes to a close, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she’s expecting the department to head back to a “pre-emergency status quo.” Most notably, that means the MPD will stop working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does. And with the end of the emergency, it won’t be what MPD does in the future,” Bowser said at an event Wednesday morning.
When Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act on Aug. 11, he was able to compel the mayor to provide MPD services for federal needs for up to 30 days. That includes, Bowser said, immigration enforcement. Those 30 days end Wednesday at 11:59 p.m.
Though Trump said the surge and police takeover was in effort to combat violent crime, hundreds of immigration arrests were made. Days into the federal control, Police Chief Pamela Smith made an executive order allowing limited cooperation between the MPD and ICE, which had not been previously allowed. But that executive order apparently dies with the emergency.
“It goes with the emergency, and the emergency is over,” Bowser said Tuesday.
That doesn’t mean ICE will stop operating in D.C. It just means that local police officers will no longer provide ICE with information.
Through the emergency ends Wednesday, Bowser said she doesn’t expect federal police or the National Guard to disappear. National Guard troops will stay in D.C. at least through late November after the Trump administration extended orders.
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