Houston's mayor has directed its police force to stop cooperating with ICE.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / usicegov Houston Mayor John Whitmire said at a Friday press conference that he's directing police officers to scale back cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the New York Times reports.

The move bucks a policy imposed by Gov. Greg Abbott, who lost in the midterms to Democrat Gina Hinojosa.