'Immigration Order' Comforts Latino Community

POSTED: 5:54 pm EDT March 22, 2012
UPDATED: 7:15 am EDT March 23, 2012

BALTIMORE -- An executive order prohibits Baltimore City agencies from asking about a person's immigration status, the mayor told a gathering of the city's Latino community Thursday night.Mayor Stephanie Rawling-Blake presented her newly-signed executive order before a crowd that packed the Enoch-Pratt Library in southeast Baltimore. Rawlings-Blake answered questions about the order and listened to community members tell stories about their experiences with police officers. The executive order is meant to prevent city agencies, including the Police Department, from discriminating against residents based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and immigration status."Our Baltimore City police officers are not going to be asking citizens, residents about their immigration status," said Rawlings-Blake. "We're making sure that we're reaching out. We don't want residents in Baltimore to be fearful simply because of their status or perception of their status."Under the executive order, police are prohibited from questioning or apprehending a person solely for an actual or suspected violation of federal immigration law.The mayor signed the order a week after Baltimore was included in the federal government's Secure Communities program.The program calls for state correction facilities to share information and fingerprints with the FBI and immigration agencies.

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