For months, Oakland has struggled to award a major contract to guard city properties, with city staff and councilmembers butting heads over who should get the lucrative award.

Now, city officials are once again proposing that the award go to a national company called Allied Universal Security Services. But there’s a potential snag.

On Thursday, the Oakland City Council’s rules committee will decide whether to schedule a vote on whether or not Allied should get the $45 million deal.

But Allied is a big company and one of its subsidiary firms has contracts with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE. That could be a problem because city rules ban Oakland from doing business with companies that provide ICE and the Border Patrol with “services or goods for data coll

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