COLUMBUS – Mayor Andrew Ginther signed an executive order Friday reinforcing the city’s open-arms policy on immigration and taking a stand against a presidential ban on travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.
The order states that the welcomes refugees and immigrants, will not use city resources to detain people solely based on their immigration status, will offer the same city services to immigrants and refugees as those offered to all residents and will “vigorously oppose any effort to require the use of local taxpayer resources for the enforcement of federal immigration policy.”
Ginther was joined by Columbus City Council President Pro Tempore Priscilla Tyson, County Commissioner Kevin Boyce, and Columbus City Schools Superintendent Dr. Dan Good in announcing the order Friday at Feddersen Community Recreation Center, 3911 Dresden Street.