HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Three Houston City Council members are pushing to turn Mayor John Whitmire's executive order limiting the Houston Police Department's cooperation with ICE into a city ordinance.

PREVIOUS REPORT: Houston mayor signs order to limit cooperation with ICE, says 'elections matter' after Democrats win Whitmire announced Friday that he had signed an executive order directing HPD to contact ICE only if a suspect has an active criminal warrant or has been arrested for a new criminal offense that could result in jail time.

In the days since, council members Alejandra Salinas, Edward Pollard and Tiffany Thomas have come together to say they want that executive order to become a city ordinance.