Joining a flurry of other municipalities, Batavia’s City Council is considering drafting an ordinance that would ban federal immigration enforcement on city-owned property, as a federal immigration crackdown continues in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.

The issue was discussed at the Batavia City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting last Tuesday, at which dozens of residents addressed the council, the vast majority speaking in support of such an ordinance.

At the meeting, Batavia City Administrator Laura Newman explained that the idea was prompted by requests from several aldermen, and that city staff has looked at similar ordinances in nearby municipalities as they consider similar legislation in Batavia.

The legislation cropping up in municipalities in Chicago and its surrou

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