Tucson took action against ICE. Now the city is bracing for state Republicans to fight back

‘You cannot compromise with crazy,’ the mayor says after taking steps to block the agency from targeting its residents They could hear the shot that killed Renee Good in Tucson, Arizona. When Good, a mother of three, was fatally shot by an immigration agent on the streets of Minneapolis in January, a group of lawmakers 1,300 miles away moved fast. Just two weeks later, Tucson city council voted unanimously to start a process to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and homeland security officials from using its property to stage enforcement activities, unless the agency had a warrant signed by a judge. “How in the world would I be able to – well, let me see, I’ll just allow, you know, a few immigration raids to happen in our city? That’s not possible. That is just not possible,” said the Tucson mayor, Regina Romero. “You cannot compromise with crazy. Right? You cannot compromise with unconstitutional. And in my book, I cannot compromise with my long-held beliefs of protecting our residents, no matter their immigration status.” Tucson didn’t take this step alone: cities and counties from Seattle, Washington, to Providence, Rhode Island, have made similar moves in th

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