Portland Mayor Mark Dion is clarifying how the city will interact with immigration enforcement agents after last week’s controversy over a requirement to work with ICE being linked to a federal grant.

Dion says Portland Police will contact ICE under specific circumstances.

“If the Portland Police Department investigates a violent felony case and the suspect is determined to have immigration conditions, then of course, ICE is going to be notified,” said Dion

Portland was awarded an $18 million transportation grant to make improvements at the Jetport, but the Trump administration later attached a requirement to work with ICE on immigration enforcement.

The city is accepting the grant but will fight against the ICE requirement in court.

Dion says they’ve consulted the city’s legal staff and feel they’re on strong footing after a federal judge in Rhodes Island blocked the ICE requirement in a lawsuit brought by 20 states.

He says Portland Police will not get involved with immigration enforcement.

“It’s not our job as a city to ask you for your papers,” Dion said. “It’s not the responsibility of the police to determine if you’re lawfully in the country. If it comes up during the investigation, that’s another question, and that’s the difference”