MUSKEGON, MI - Muskegon officials voted to denounce racial profiling in law and immigration enforcement during the Muskegon City Commission meeting on Tuesday.

The decision comes weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this month that reversed a lower court order blocking federal immigration agents from stopping individuals based on ethnicity and other factors.

On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Muskegon Commissioner Jay Kilgo brought a resolution in response to the decision, challenging the idea of agents “stopping and questioning people based on their perceived ethnicity alone.”

The measure was approved unanimously among present commissioners.

“The current administration is eroding our civil liberties,” Kilgo said. “The progress that we’ve created in this country over the last 50 year

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