Houston市长签行政令收紧警方与ICE合作：非羁押性接触不再通报
据路透社报道，位于美国德克萨斯州哈里斯县的 Houston 市市长 John Whitmire 于11月6日签署行政令，要求 Houston 警察局收紧与联邦移民与海关执法局（ICE）的合作：今后只有当当事人因可判监禁的罪名被捕、且国家犯罪信息中心（NCIC）查询命中 ICE 行政令时，警方才联系 ICE。
行政令写明，一个人是或被怀疑是移民执法对象这一事实本身，不得作为联系 ICE、延长任何拘留、或将任何人收押或继续羁押的理由。换言之，日常交通拦查中若司机只是收到罚单，警员不会再因其带有行政移民令而通知 ICE；Houston 警察局长 J. Noe Diaz 在发布会上举例说明了这一变化，并表示支持新政策、警局已经开始执行。
Whitmire 说，他在采取这一行动前与德州新当选的州长、副州长和主计长沟通过。他说，此举意在「减少恐惧与焦虑，不只在某些社区，而是遍及整个 Houston」，并称「选举很重要」。他还表示，这项行政令对州参议院第4号法案的执行取向，是回到该法案支持者所称的打击非法居留犯罪者的目标上；他当年任州参议员时曾反对这部禁止所谓「庇护城市」的州法。
此事发生在中期选举之后：民主党在本周的选举中横扫德州全州职位，现任州长 Greg Abbott 争取第四个任期时败给民主党人 Gina Hinojosa，当选者要到明年1月才就职。今年4月，Houston 市议会曾通过条例，禁止警员为等待 ICE 而延长拦查或拘留；Abbott 当时曾威胁，若不撤销该条例，将撤走 Houston 约1.1亿美元的公共安全拨款。州长办公室与州总检察长办公室暂未立即回应市长宣布的置评请求。
依新规，县监狱收押环节与联邦当局的协调属于哈里斯县层面，不在市警局这项行政令的范围之内；行政令也不限制 ICE 在 Houston 独立执法的权力。
（来源：路透社）
Houston Mayor Orders Police to Curtail ICE Cooperation, Limiting Alerts to Jailable Offenses
Houston Mayor John Whitmire on November 6 signed an executive order directing the Houston Police Department to curtail its cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Reuters reported. Houston is in Harris County, Texas. Under the order, department personnel shall contact ICE regarding a person only if that person is already going to jail on new charges or other warrants and has a positive National Crime Information Center (NCIC) hit for an ICE administrative warrant.
The order states that the fact that a person is, or is suspected to be, subject to immigration enforcement shall not, by itself, be a basis to contact ICE, to prolong any detention, or to take or hold any person in custody. In practice, a motorist stopped for a minor traffic infraction who receives a citation will no longer be referred to ICE solely because of an administrative warrant, Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz explained at the news conference; Diaz said he supported the change and that the department had already begun implementing it.
Whitmire said he took the action after consulting with the state's newly elected governor, lieutenant governor and comptroller, describing it as an effort to reduce fear and anxiety across all of Houston and remarking that "elections matter." He said the order enforces Senate Bill 4, which he opposed as a state senator, in line with its supporters' stated goal of cracking down on criminals who are in the country illegally.
The move came days after Democrats swept statewide races in Texas in the midterm elections; Republican Governor Greg Abbott lost his bid for a fourth term to Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who does not take office until January. In April, the Houston City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting officers from holding someone or extending a stop longer to wait for ICE, and Abbott threatened to withdraw about $110 million in public safety grants to Houston if it did not repeal the ordinance. Neither Abbott nor the Texas Attorney General's Office immediately responded to a request for comment on Friday's announcement.
Once a person is booked into the county jail, decisions about detention requests or coordination with federal authorities rest with Harris County rather than city police, and the order does not limit ICE's independent authority to operate in Houston.
(Source: Reuters)
来源：路透社
发布：GSM·美国（发布链接）
图片来源：图：Houston市政厅（GSM城市固定图库）。Warren LeMay 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Houston City Hall (GSM city asset library). By Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
GSM Global · 本篇英文版 English edition of this story
