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Amending Title 21 of The Philadelphia Code by adding a new Chapter 21-3600 entitled "Non-Intervention with Respect to Immigration Enforcement" to establish certain limits on how personal information may be handled by the City with regard to immigration enforcement, create reporting requirements, and provide for remedies for violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHIILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 21 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
TITLE 21. MISCELLANEOUS
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CHAPTER 21-3600. Non-Intervention with Respect to Immigration Enforcement.
? 21-3601. Definitions.
(X) Administrative warrant. A document issued by an immigration enforcement official, including those from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or an administrative immigration judge (IJ), relating to suspected violations of immigration law, including an I-200 "Warrant for Arrest of Alien", I-205 "Warrant of Removal/Deportation", and any successor or similar forms. The term shall include civil administrative warrants, administrative subpoenas, detainer requests, removal orders, entries in databases maintained by National Crime Information Center or other entities, and any similar civil order for the arrest or detention of an individual or for information but shall not include a judicial warrant or court order.
(X) City Agency. City department, division, commission, council, committee, board, or other body established by authority of ordinance, executive order, or Charter.
(X) Citizenship or immigration status. The status of a being a person who: (a) is a citizen or national of the United States, including a person who holds United States citizenship in addition to citizenship of another country; or (b) has migrated to and is neither a citizen nor national of the United States, including, but not...
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