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Seattle hasn't seen a large deployment of ICE agents by the federal government compared to some other sanctuary cities, but the threats remain top of mind for city, county and state officials.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson says her administration has preemptively moved to address outside threats from the Trump administration following the aggressive and deadly ICE immigration surges in Minneapolis and other major cities.

In January, Wilson announced a series of steps in an executive order to address federal immigration activities.

-So one of the things that we've done is provide, much clearer guidance around the role of our police department, regarding ICE and so basically, directing police to, you know, record potentially criminal ICE activity.

And I think this is something that's really important when we think about how are we actually going to hold people responsible for what they're doing in our community.

We've also invited small businesses, other private institutions to join us in not allowing ICE to stage on their property, to making it clear that, you know, this is a private space where ICE cannot come in without a warrant.

-The mayor acknowledges the city is limited in what it can do, but Wilson shared her staffers experience, who traveled to Minneapolis at the height of the ICE surge.

-I think a big lesson was just the importance of that really consistent collaboration, communication between the city government and, like neighborhood based organizations and the immigrants rights groups.

And so we're really taking that to heart and trying to make sure that we're building those relationships now, and that also we just have a really clear plan and protocol in place.

-I'm Paris Jackson, thank you for watching The Newsfeed, your destination for nonprofit northwest News.

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