詹姆斯·斯图尔特市长援引小马丁·路德·金的言论为保护非法移民辩护，同时告诉当地媒体，欧文代尔仍是守法城市，并非罪犯的”庇护所”
作者：查尔斯·克里茨
福克斯新闻
2026年2月5日 美国东部时间下午4:02发布
欧文代尔市长詹姆斯·斯图尔特援引小马丁·路德·金的言论为保护非法移民辩护，并承诺拨款培训活动人士跟踪移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工。然而，他的行为可能引发联邦层面的反击，因为阿拉巴马州资深参议员警告称，如果他坚持这一做法，”你不会喜欢我”。
阿拉巴马州共和党参议员汤米·塔伯维尔——同时也是今年试图接替任期受限的州长凯·艾维的候选人——警告斯图尔特，这位民主党人无法绕过联邦法律。
“（如果我当选州长，阿拉巴马州）将对试图绕过联邦法律的流氓市长采取零容忍政策，”前奥本大学橄榄球教练塔伯维尔告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
“不管你喜不喜欢，联邦法律规定非法移民必须被驱逐。如果市长们不喜欢这一点，他们应该去竞选国会议员。”
反ICE立法提交给冉冉升起的民主党州长办公桌，考验其总统野心
（左图：阿拉巴马州共和党参议员汤米·塔伯维尔发言，右图：总统唐纳德·特朗普倾听。图片来源：亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图片社）
在斯图尔特称”目睹ICE行动拆散欧文代尔的家庭，凸显了解决影响我们社区的移民政策的迫切需要，这让我回想起金的最后一次演讲——他说他看到了应许之地，但可能无法抵达那里”后，福克斯新闻数字版联系了斯图尔特的办公室。
“我现在明白了。这可能是我的最后一个任期，但我仍然必须做上帝的旨意。每一天都是如此。当金博士说’我只想做上帝的旨意’的前一晚，他们杀了他，这让我泪流满面。因为我现在明白了这句话的含义，”斯图尔特说。
斯图尔特表示，ICE行动”遵循金在伯明翰监狱信件中描述的相同模式”，而伯明翰与欧文代尔相邻。
塔伯维尔还对阿拉巴马州新闻媒体1819新闻（以该州建州年份命名）的报道提出质疑，称欧文代尔已与阿拉巴马州移民正义联盟（ACIJ）签约，协助诸如”应市长要求追踪ICE特工的预警系统”等项目。
斯图尔特在其通讯中表示，在”建立这个社区的家庭被追捕”的情况下，受金启发的工作仍需继续。
斯图尔特的通讯发布几天后，持刀的墨西哥非法移民何塞·巴-鲁伊斯周一被司法部指控在伯明翰地区袭击ICE特工并被逮捕。
明尼阿波利斯市长回避反对奥巴马时代移民政策的问题，该政策现在被特朗普推动
（图片：20号州际公路从佐治亚州进入阿拉巴马州，司机在阿伯纳西（阿拉巴马州）进入中部时间时需多花一小时。图片来源：查尔斯·克里茨/福克斯新闻数字版）
在评论中，艾维支持塔伯维尔，表示蒙哥马利将始终与国土安全部合作：
“与明尼苏达州不同，在阿拉巴马州，我们执法。”艾维说。
“我们很自豪能与ICE合作，做到这一点：执行法律，保护我们的公民免受罪犯和违法者的侵害。”
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截至发稿时，斯图尔特未回应福克斯新闻数字版的置评请求，但他告诉福克斯伯明翰分台，欧文代尔不是庇护城市，不会包庇罪犯，并且声称不会实际干预ICE行动。
“我们现在看到的很多事情，都是300到400年前发生的事情，”他告诉该媒体。”我们希望成为守法城市，但我们也清楚自己的角色。”
查尔斯·克里茨是福克斯新闻数字版记者。
他于2013年加入福克斯新闻，担任撰稿人和制作助理。
查尔斯负责福克斯新闻数字版的媒体、政治和文化报道。
他是宾夕法尼亚州本地人，毕业于天普大学，获得广播新闻学士学位。
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Tuberville warns mayor over anti-ICE activism: ‘You won’t like me very much’
Mayor James Stewart Jr. cited Martin Luther King Jr. as justification for protecting illegal immigrants, while telling a local affiliate Irondale remains a law-abiding city and not a ‘sanctuary’ for criminals
By Charles Creitz
Fox News
Published February 5, 2026 4:02pm EST
Irondale Mayor James Stewart, Jr. cited Martin Luther King Jr. as justification for protecting illegal immigrants and pledged funds to train activists to track ICE agents. However, his actions may prompt federal blowback, as Alabama’s senior senator warned the mayor he “won’t like me very much” if he follows through.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. — who is also running to succeed term-limited Gov. Kay Ivey this year — warned Stewart that the Democrat will have no such luck circumventing the feds.
“[When I’m governor, Alabama] will have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to rogue mayors trying to go around federal law,” Tuberville, the ex-Auburn football coach, told Fox News Digital.
“Like it or not, federal law says that illegal immigrants must be deported. If mayors don’t like that, they should run for Congress.”
ANTI-ICE LEGISLATION HEADS TO DESK OF RISING STAR DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR, TESTING HIS PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., left, speaks as President Donald Trump, right, listens.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Stewart’s office after he said in his February mayoral newsletter that “watching ICE operations tear families apart in Irondale highlights the urgent need to address immigration policies affecting our community, which brings me back to King’s final speech, the one where he said he’d seen the Promised Land but might not get there.”
“I understand that now. This may be my last term. But I still have to do God’s will. Every single day. When Dr. King said, ‘I just want to do God’s will’ the night before they killed him, it brings me to tears. Because I know what that means now,” Stewart said.
Stewart said ICE operations are “following the same pattern” King described in his letter from jail in Birmingham, adjacent to Irondale.
Tuberville further took issue with reporting from Alabama news outlet 1819 News – so named for the state’s founding year – that Irondale has contracted with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) to aid programs such as a “warning system to track [ICE] agents at the behest of the city’s mayor.”
In that regard, Stewart said in his newsletter his King-inspired work is not done while “families who built this community are being hunted.”
Days after Stewart’s newsletter publication, knife-wielding Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Ba-Ruiz was arrested and charged Monday by the Justice Department for assaulting an ICE agent in the Birmingham area.
MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR AVOIDS QUESTION ON OPPOSING OBAMA-ERA IMMIGRATION POLICY NOW PUSHED BY TRUMP
Interstate 20 enters Alabama from Georgia, as drivers gain an hour crossing into Central Time, at Abernathy, Ala.(Charles Creitz/Fox News Digital)
In comments to Fox News Digital, Ivey backed up Tuberville, saying Montgomery will always work with DHS:
“Unlike Minnesota, in Alabama, we enforce the law,” Ivey said.
“We are proud to work with ICE to do just that: Enforce the laws and protect our citizens from criminals and lawbreakers.”
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While Stewart did not respond to Fox News Digital by publication time, he told Fox’s Birmingham affiliate that Irondale is not a sanctuary city and will not hide criminals from the law, and then claimed he won’t actually interfere with ICE operations.
“A lot of the things that we see now are the things that were going on 300 to 400 years ago,” he told the outlet. “We want to be a law-abiding city, but we also know our role.”
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
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