A petition is circulating in town asking the Cuero City Council to consider revoking or revising the 287 Agreement with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) it approved Dec. 8.
The agreement calls for Cuero police officers to be trained in assisting ICE in locating individuals with “serious criminal histories,” according to the City of Cuero’s minutes of the meeting. The City of Cuero can seek reimbursement from the federal government for the time spent on the project.
Chief of Police Steven Ellis told the council that the agreement “formalizes cooperative work already occurring and applies only to targeted criminal enforcement,” according to the minutes. He added that the “officers will not engage in general immigration enforcement or profiling,” after which the council authorized him to sign the agreement.
