Framingham To Study Sanctuary City Status;
Opponent Says Appoint ‘Angel Moms’ To Panel

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The Framingham City Council is creating a task force to study whether Framingham should declare itself a sanctuary city.

The panel, to be chaired by the mayor, is asked to study and perhaps propose what the resolution calls a Welcoming Immigrants Ordinance.

The resolution doesn’t create a sanctuary city and doesn’t spell out what the task force should recommend. But the resolution uses general language similar to what’s found in so-called trust ordinances, many of which also direct local police not to cooperate with federal immigration authorities unless they have a warrant.

Framingham has a large Brazilian population whose first language is Portuguese – one of the 75 languages spoken in Framingham public schools, local officials say.