'All you need is an ICE truck, they’ll all be running,' the official said on live stream.
Residents are calling for city planning board member Carmencita Pile, pictured speaking at a council meeting here, for discriminatory comment made Saturday at an event.Residents in Plainfield are calling for the removal of a city employee who was recorded on a live stream Saturday questioning the immigration status of protestors demanding affordable housing and joking about calling federal immigration authorities to disperse the demonstrators.
“Recently, I made insensitive remarks during a Facebook livestream that demeaned and offended LatinX/Hispanic members of the community. For this I am truly sorry and sincerely apologize. All people have the right to protest regardless of their immigration status,” Pile wrote.city’s Facebook page“I want to make it clear that neither my administration nor I condone the statements or behavior of any city employee who appears to be insensitive to the plight of any resident, documented or not.
As protestors were sharing their concerns with Mapp, who was also present, Piles filmed the interaction and zoomed in on individual protestors.undocumented?” Pile asks repeatedly to no one in particular.calling for Piles to be removed from the planning board, the Plainfield Democratic City Committee, and her seat on the board of HOPES Community Action Partnership, Inc. had more than 400 signatures by Monday afternoon.
, a nonprofit for which Piles has served as a board member since 2012, said in a statement Monday the matter was under review.
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