Local Immigrant Community Not Happy With Nutter's New Job
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Former Mayor Michael Nutter was sworn in last week to the federal Homeland Security Advisory Council. That news is not sitting well with the local immigrant community.
The former mayor initially put in place an order which prevented city officials from cooperating with federal officials who sought to detain immigrants. But Nutter reversed the order days before leaving office.
Erika Almiron, executive director of Juntos -- a Latino immigration organization, -- says his action was politically motivated:
"The maneuvering that was happening before the end of his tenure, had a lot more to do with his political career than it did with what was actually right. When he took a policy that he introduced a year and a half before, and made changes to it right before he was leaving."
Almiron says she is afraid how Nutter will act nationally, when he had so little understanding of how the local community would be effected by his reversal.
Attempts to reach the former mayor were unsuccessful.
