ICE OUT OF ATX - Demand APD stop collaborating with ICE & DHS

Recent signers:
Leanne Robbins and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

We, undersigned, call on the City of Austin to protect Austin residents from the violence of ICE and DHS by immediately prohibiting the Austin Police Department from supporting any attempt by ICE or DPS to question, detain, and deport Austin residents and visitors.

Petición traducida abjao...

We condemn the Austin Police Department's continued cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies who verifiably and repeatedly violate people’s constitutional rights, operate outside of their jurisdiction, and ignore due process.

We call on Austin City Council, Mayor Kirk Watson, and City Manager T.C. Broadnax to immediately pass a city ordinance that prevents any APD employee from helping immigration agents serving administrative warrants to Austin residents, including but not limited to:

  • Running a warrant check for ICE/DHS administrative warrants
  • Serving ICE/DHS administrative warrants
  • Detaining people on behalf of ICE/DHS
  • Handing people over to ICE/DHS who are in APD custody
  • Alerting these ICE/DHS to the location of Austin residents and visitors

We call on Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis to immediately retrain the entire APD staff to prevent city employees from knowingly or unknowingly notifying ICE of the residency address or current location of Austinites with ICE/DPS administrative warrants.

Austin Police Department’s assistance to ICE and DPS is quickly eroding the remaining trust Austinites have in our local government and local law enforcement. 

ICE and Border Patrol have consistently escalated harm against civilians across the United States. Here in Austin, they are racially profiling our communities, stopping Austin drivers without cause, and detaining and deporting our neighbors without due process.

Last week, the Austin Police Department responded to a 911 call. The department ran a warrant check for the women who had called them, which turned up an administrative immigration warrant. As a result, an Austin mother and her child, who is a U.S. citizen, were taken into custody by federal immigration officials, not allowed to share the details of their detainment with their family or local advocacy organizations, and deported even though the child is an American citizen.

This is only one of many stories from APD collaboration with federal immigration authorities.

If the City of Austin wants to claim that our police department exists to serve and protect our residents, the city should provide full transparency around the actions and policies of city employees, if city employees are even tangentially involved, when our neighbors go missing from their homes and workplaces.

APD in any way facilitating the detainment of Austin residents by any federal immigration department significantly impacts safety in our community by making it less likely that immigrants, undocumented people, people of color, and anyone associated with the anti-ICE movement will report crimes or cooperate with local law enforcement.

Immigration agents are increasing their violence and harassment of American residents, including undocumented immigrants, immigrants on valid visas, protestors, journalists, first responders, doctors, lawyers, bystanders, and legal observers. They have released chemical weapons into vehicles and on school property. They flagrantly and repeatedly violate their own use of force guidelines, act outside of their jurisdiction, and ignore due process altogether.

These agents and their lawlessness pose a significant bodily threat to the safety of every Austinite, and we demand that the City of Austin act with expediency to prevent further detainment and deportations due to the actions of city employees.

We demand city guarantees that the department is refusing to search for and serve ICE and DHS warrants, and new APD policies that materially protect Austin residents and visitors from ICE and DHS violence. 

La Petición:

Nosotros, abajo firmantes, pedimos a la Ciudad de Austin que proteja a los residentes de Austin de la violencia de ICE y DHS prohibiendo inmediatamente al Departamento de Policía de Austin apoyar cualquier intento de ICE o DPS de cuestionar, detener y deportar a residentes y visitantes de Austin.

Condenamos la continua cooperación del Departamento de Policía de Austin con las agencias federales de aplicación de la ley que violan de manera verificable y repetida los derechos constitucionales de las personas, operan fuera de su jurisdicción e ignoran el debido proceso.

Pedimos al Concejo Municipal de Austin, al alcalde Kirk Watson y al administrador municipal T.C. Broadnax que aprueben inmediatamente una ordenanza municipal que impide que cualquier empleado de APD ayude a agentes de inmigración que sirvan órdenes administrativas a residentes de Austin, incluyendo pero no limitado a:

Realizar una comprobación de órdenes para órdenes administrativas de ICE/DHS

  • Servicio de órdenes administrativas de ICE/DHS
  • Detención de personas en nombre de ICE/DHS
  • Entregar a personas a ICE/DHS que estaban bajo custodia de APD
  • Alertando a estos ICE/DHS a los residentes y visitantes de Austin

Pedimos a la Jefa de Policía de Austin, Lisa Davis, que inmediatamente vuelva a entrenar a todo el personal de APD para evitar que los empleados de la ciudad notifiquen a ICE, a sabiendas o sin saberlo, la dirección de residencia o la ubicación actual de los Austinites con órdenes administrativas de ICE/DPS.

La ayuda del Departamento de Policía de Austin a ICE y DPS está erosionando rápidamente la confianza que los habitantes de Austin tienen en nuestro gobierno local y en las fuerzas del orden locales.

ICE y Patrulla Fronteriza han aumentado constantemente el daño contra civiles en todo Estados Unidos. Aquí en Austin, están perfilando racialmente nuestras comunidades, deteniendo a los conductores de Austin sin causa, y deteniendo y deportando a nuestros vecinos sin el debido proceso.

La semana pasada, el Departamento de Policía de Austin respondió a una llamada al 911. El departamento ejecutó un cheque de orden judicial para las mujeres que las habían llamado, lo que resultó en una orden administrativa de inmigración. Como resultado, una madre de Austin y su hijo, que es ciudadano estadounidense, fueron detenidos por funcionarios federales de inmigración, no se les permitió compartir los detalles de su detención con su familia o organizaciones locales de defensa, y deportados a pesar de que el niño es ciudadano estadounidense.

Esta es solo una de muchas historias de la colaboración del APD con las autoridades federales de inmigración.

Si la Ciudad de Austin quiere afirmar que nuestro departamento de policía existe para servir y proteger a nuestros residentes, la ciudad debe proporcionar total transparencia en torno a las acciones y políticas de los empleados de la ciudad, si los empleados de la ciudad están incluso tangencialmente involucrados, cuando nuestros vecinos desaparecen de sus hogares y lugares de trabajo.

APD de alguna manera facilitando la detención de residentes de Austin por cualquier departamento federal de inmigración impacta significativamente la seguridad en nuestra comunidad al hacer que sea menos probable que los inmigrantes, personas indocumentadas, personas de color y cualquier persona asociada con el movimiento anti-ICE reporten crímenes o cooperen con la policía local.

Los agentes de inmigración están aumentando su violencia y acoso contra los residentes estadounidenses, incluidos los inmigrantes indocumentados, los inmigrantes con visas válidas, los manifestantes, los periodistas, los primeros en responder, los médicos, los trabajadores de inmigración y los trabajadores de inmigración. abogados, transeúntes y observadores legales. Han lanzado armas químicas en vehículos y en la propiedad de la escuela. Violan flagrante y repetidamente sus propias directrices sobre el uso de la fuerza, actúan fuera de su jurisdicción e ignoran por completo el debido proceso.

Estos agentes y su anarquía representan una amenaza corporal significativa para la seguridad de todos los Austinites, y exigimos que la Ciudad de Austin actúe con prontitud para evitar más detenciones y deportaciones debido a las acciones de los empleados de la ciudad.

Exigimos garantías municipales de que el departamento se niega a buscar y servir órdenes de ICE y DHS, y nuevas políticas de APD que protegen materialmente a los residentes y visitantes de Austin de la violencia de ICE y DHS.

 

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Recent signers:
Leanne Robbins and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

We, undersigned, call on the City of Austin to protect Austin residents from the violence of ICE and DHS by immediately prohibiting the Austin Police Department from supporting any attempt by ICE or DPS to question, detain, and deport Austin residents and visitors.

Petición traducida abjao...

We condemn the Austin Police Department's continued cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies who verifiably and repeatedly violate people’s constitutional rights, operate outside of their jurisdiction, and ignore due process.

We call on Austin City Council, Mayor Kirk Watson, and City Manager T.C. Broadnax to immediately pass a city ordinance that prevents any APD employee from helping immigration agents serving administrative warrants to Austin residents, including but not limited to:

  • Running a warrant check for ICE/DHS administrative warrants
  • Serving ICE/DHS administrative warrants
  • Detaining people on behalf of ICE/DHS
  • Handing people over to ICE/DHS who are in APD custody
  • Alerting these ICE/DHS to the location of Austin residents and visitors

We call on Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis to immediately retrain the entire APD staff to prevent city employees from knowingly or unknowingly notifying ICE of the residency address or current location of Austinites with ICE/DPS administrative warrants.

Austin Police Department’s assistance to ICE and DPS is quickly eroding the remaining trust Austinites have in our local government and local law enforcement. 

ICE and Border Patrol have consistently escalated harm against civilians across the United States. Here in Austin, they are racially profiling our communities, stopping Austin drivers without cause, and detaining and deporting our neighbors without due process.

Last week, the Austin Police Department responded to a 911 call. The department ran a warrant check for the women who had called them, which turned up an administrative immigration warrant. As a result, an Austin mother and her child, who is a U.S. citizen, were taken into custody by federal immigration officials, not allowed to share the details of their detainment with their family or local advocacy organizations, and deported even though the child is an American citizen.

This is only one of many stories from APD collaboration with federal immigration authorities.

If the City of Austin wants to claim that our police department exists to serve and protect our residents, the city should provide full transparency around the actions and policies of city employees, if city employees are even tangentially involved, when our neighbors go missing from their homes and workplaces.

APD in any way facilitating the detainment of Austin residents by any federal immigration department significantly impacts safety in our community by making it less likely that immigrants, undocumented people, people of color, and anyone associated with the anti-ICE movement will report crimes or cooperate with local law enforcement.

Immigration agents are increasing their violence and harassment of American residents, including undocumented immigrants, immigrants on valid visas, protestors, journalists, first responders, doctors, lawyers, bystanders, and legal observers. They have released chemical weapons into vehicles and on school property. They flagrantly and repeatedly violate their own use of force guidelines, act outside of their jurisdiction, and ignore due process altogether.

These agents and their lawlessness pose a significant bodily threat to the safety of every Austinite, and we demand that the City of Austin act with expediency to prevent further detainment and deportations due to the actions of city employees.

We demand city guarantees that the department is refusing to search for and serve ICE and DHS warrants, and new APD policies that materially protect Austin residents and visitors from ICE and DHS violence. 

La Petición:

Nosotros, abajo firmantes, pedimos a la Ciudad de Austin que proteja a los residentes de Austin de la violencia de ICE y DHS prohibiendo inmediatamente al Departamento de Policía de Austin apoyar cualquier intento de ICE o DPS de cuestionar, detener y deportar a residentes y visitantes de Austin.

Condenamos la continua cooperación del Departamento de Policía de Austin con las agencias federales de aplicación de la ley que violan de manera verificable y repetida los derechos constitucionales de las personas, operan fuera de su jurisdicción e ignoran el debido proceso.

Pedimos al Concejo Municipal de Austin, al alcalde Kirk Watson y al administrador municipal T.C. Broadnax que aprueben inmediatamente una ordenanza municipal que impide que cualquier empleado de APD ayude a agentes de inmigración que sirvan órdenes administrativas a residentes de Austin, incluyendo pero no limitado a:

Realizar una comprobación de órdenes para órdenes administrativas de ICE/DHS

  • Servicio de órdenes administrativas de ICE/DHS
  • Detención de personas en nombre de ICE/DHS
  • Entregar a personas a ICE/DHS que estaban bajo custodia de APD
  • Alertando a estos ICE/DHS a los residentes y visitantes de Austin

Pedimos a la Jefa de Policía de Austin, Lisa Davis, que inmediatamente vuelva a entrenar a todo el personal de APD para evitar que los empleados de la ciudad notifiquen a ICE, a sabiendas o sin saberlo, la dirección de residencia o la ubicación actual de los Austinites con órdenes administrativas de ICE/DPS.

La ayuda del Departamento de Policía de Austin a ICE y DPS está erosionando rápidamente la confianza que los habitantes de Austin tienen en nuestro gobierno local y en las fuerzas del orden locales.

ICE y Patrulla Fronteriza han aumentado constantemente el daño contra civiles en todo Estados Unidos. Aquí en Austin, están perfilando racialmente nuestras comunidades, deteniendo a los conductores de Austin sin causa, y deteniendo y deportando a nuestros vecinos sin el debido proceso.

La semana pasada, el Departamento de Policía de Austin respondió a una llamada al 911. El departamento ejecutó un cheque de orden judicial para las mujeres que las habían llamado, lo que resultó en una orden administrativa de inmigración. Como resultado, una madre de Austin y su hijo, que es ciudadano estadounidense, fueron detenidos por funcionarios federales de inmigración, no se les permitió compartir los detalles de su detención con su familia o organizaciones locales de defensa, y deportados a pesar de que el niño es ciudadano estadounidense.

Esta es solo una de muchas historias de la colaboración del APD con las autoridades federales de inmigración.

Si la Ciudad de Austin quiere afirmar que nuestro departamento de policía existe para servir y proteger a nuestros residentes, la ciudad debe proporcionar total transparencia en torno a las acciones y políticas de los empleados de la ciudad, si los empleados de la ciudad están incluso tangencialmente involucrados, cuando nuestros vecinos desaparecen de sus hogares y lugares de trabajo.

APD de alguna manera facilitando la detención de residentes de Austin por cualquier departamento federal de inmigración impacta significativamente la seguridad en nuestra comunidad al hacer que sea menos probable que los inmigrantes, personas indocumentadas, personas de color y cualquier persona asociada con el movimiento anti-ICE reporten crímenes o cooperen con la policía local.

Los agentes de inmigración están aumentando su violencia y acoso contra los residentes estadounidenses, incluidos los inmigrantes indocumentados, los inmigrantes con visas válidas, los manifestantes, los periodistas, los primeros en responder, los médicos, los trabajadores de inmigración y los trabajadores de inmigración. abogados, transeúntes y observadores legales. Han lanzado armas químicas en vehículos y en la propiedad de la escuela. Violan flagrante y repetidamente sus propias directrices sobre el uso de la fuerza, actúan fuera de su jurisdicción e ignoran por completo el debido proceso.

Estos agentes y su anarquía representan una amenaza corporal significativa para la seguridad de todos los Austinites, y exigimos que la Ciudad de Austin actúe con prontitud para evitar más detenciones y deportaciones debido a las acciones de los empleados de la ciudad.

Exigimos garantías municipales de que el departamento se niega a buscar y servir órdenes de ICE y DHS, y nuevas políticas de APD que protegen materialmente a los residentes y visitantes de Austin de la violencia de ICE y DHS.

 

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The Decision Makers

Austin City Council
8 Members
2 Responded
Mike Siegel
Austin City Council - District 7
Thank you to everyone who signed this petition and is lifting their voice to speak out against ICE brutality. As an Austin resident, City Council representative, and person of conscience, I share your determination to get ICE out of Austin. To make this a reality, we need people at every level of government to use their power for good, and we need movements of committed people like you. Right now, I am committed to ensuring the City does everything we can to protect Austin residents from ICE violence. Although it is true that a 2017 Texas Senate Bill (then called “SB4”) prevents Texas cities from having a policy, either official or unofficial, to prevent cooperation with immigration enforcement, that does not mean that we have no options or ability to protect each other. Despite limiting State laws, Austin is NOT required to use our limited resources to comply with illegal, unreasonable, and unnecessary ICE requests. I am currently working with City staff, advocacy organizations, and immigration experts to make changes to the APD general orders to reflect this, and to train officers to recognize the difference between a discretionary, non-judicial, civil “administrative warrant” versus mandatory warrants that have been signed by a judge. If you were at City Hall on Tuesday when my fellow Councilmembers and I received a copy of this petition—already signed by thousands of concerned Austin residents—you hopefully saw and felt why coming together in solidarity matters. Seeing how many people care and feel the same way as one another, and hearing from community leaders, advocates, and impacted neighbors, plays a major role in our ability to combat fear and sustain our energy for the fight. Organizing ourselves around central demands is crucial to moving toward the world we want to see, and pressuring your elected representatives is a crucial piece of that. Thank you for doing your part to fight for equality and justice for all people, and I will continue to do my part fighting from City Hall.
Vanessa Fuentes
Austin City Council - District 2
Thank you for your patience. We appreciate you contacting the Office of Councilwoman Vanessa Fuentes, District 2. Our office values your voice and takes every comment into consideration. We firmly believe that APD should not be collaborating with ICE, and that ICE’s presence does not make Austin safe. Councilwoman Fuentes continues to push for APD to modify their General Orders to educate and train officers on how to interact with our immigrant community in a respectful, professional, and humane manner. Councilwoman Fuentes continues to advocate for the safety and the well-being of our immigrant community. She, along with Mayor Pro Tem Vela and Councilman Velásquez, have been in close communication with APD Chief Lisa Davis to discuss how our local police department is protecting our community, especially our immigrant community during our current political climate at the federal level. In the meantime, we continue to oppose and denounce ICE in our community. Our office has Know Your Rights cards available in multiple languages and continues to distribute them to our community. You can also find them at any Ausitn Public Library branch or by contacting Austin Equity & Inclusion at aei@austintexas.gov. Additionally, the Human Rights Division within Austin Equity & Inclusion, in partnership with Texas Immigration Law Council (TXILC) and American Gateways, will be hosting four virtual Know Your Rights events. • Thursday, January 29 at 4pm on Zoom (presentation in English with Spanish interpretation) • Tuesday, February 17 at 4pm on Zoom (presentation in English with Spanish interpretation) • Tuesday, March 10 at 5pm on Zoom (presentation in English with Spanish interpretation) • AND Thursday, April 2 at 6pm on Zoom presentation in English with Spanish interpretation). Attend Webinar: bit.ly/49NYNVC, with Passcode: 14vQEF  Last but not least, we will also be co-hosting a Community Conversation with APD Chief Davis on Thursday, February 5th at 6:30pm at Govalle Elementary School to discuss APD's policies that impact our immigrant community. Thank you again for sharing your voice with us. We will protect our immigrant community and work with our local police department to ensure they can be trusted to protect our community. We will keep you updated as these conversations progress and policies are revised. https://www.austintexas.gov/page/know-your-rights-when-interacting-austin-police
Natasha Harper-Madison
Austin City Council - District 1
Kirk Watson
Austin City Mayor
Lisa Davis
Lisa Davis
Austin Police Chief
José “Chito” Vela
José “Chito” Vela
Austin City Council - District 4
Zohaib “Zo” Qadri
Zohaib “Zo” Qadri
Austin City Council - District 9

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Petition created on January 14, 2026