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Emails Show Communication Between ICE And State Agencies

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published April 14, 2017 at 10:05 AM EDT

Republican Gov. Phil Scott made headlines when he signed a bill designed to limited Vermont's cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Still, some advocates in Vermont say the bill doesn't go far enough in preventing state agencies from helping out U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is one group making that argument. It obtained emails through a public records request that detail communication last year between the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles and ICE.

Paul Heintz, political editor at Seven Days, and reported the story and spoke to VPR about it.

Listen to the full interview above.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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