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

We condemn 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 Cedar Park City Council, Mayor Jim Penniman-Morin, and City Manager Brenda Eivens to immediately pass a city ordinance that prevents any CPPD employee from helping immigration agents serving administrative warrants to Cedar Park 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 CPPD custody
Alerting these ICE/DHS to the location of Leander residents and visitors

CPPD in any way facilitating the detainment of Cedar Park 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 Cedar Park resident, and we demand that the City of Cedar Park act with expediency to prevent further detainment and deportations due to the actions of city employees.