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Houston mayor curtails police cooperation with ICE

Houston: Days after elections that swept Democrats to statewide leadership in Texas, Houston’s mayor ordered his city’s police department on Friday to curtail its cooperation with federal immigration officers, contrary to Republican-backed state law. Mayor John Whitmire said he was taking the action, after consulting with the state’s newly elected governor, lieutenant governor and comptroller, to “reduce fear and anxiety” across the most populous city in Texas and because…