With immigration arrests surging across Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh residents are calling on city leaders to turn Mayor Ed Gainey’s informal stance to not work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into law.

Nearly 1,500 Pittsburgh residents signed a petition delivered to city council last week urging council members to declare Pittsburgh a sanctuary city and prohibit all city agencies, including police, from cooperating with ICE or sharing information about a person’s immigration status.

Mr. Gainey has long maintained that his administration will not work with ICE.

“We will do whatever necessary to make our city more welcoming,” he said at a meeting in Harrisburg just days after President Donald Trump took office in January.

But now residents and advocates are pushing for a firm

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