Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

And we're starting the meeting

at 2.12pm.

Thank you Vice Mayor.

Council Member Kaplan. It's expected

momentarily. Council Member Dickinson.

Here.

Council Member Plekibom will be absent today.

Council Member Maple.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Guetta.

Here.

Council Member Jennings.

Here.

Council Member Vang.

Here.

And Vice Mayor Talamantes.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Wonderful.

Council Member Vang, please lead us in the land acknowledgement.

And Council Member Jennings in the Pledge of Leisure.

Please rise if you're able to.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the Souther Maidu, Valley, and Plains Miwok,

Putwin and Wintu peoples, and the people of Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally

recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still

walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice

of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento Indigenous peoples, history, contributions,

and lives. Thank you. Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Sunday.

For all.

For all.

For all.

For all.

For all.

For all.

Okay, thank you so much.

So we had closed session this early afternoon, and I'm so pleased to report that in closed session, City Council unanimously voted to appoint Gustavo Martinez as our city attorney.

Gustavo joined the City of Sacramento City Attorney's Office in 1997 and continued to provide legal advice to this body for the past 29 years.

This council would like to thank Gustavo for your dedicated years of service

and we really look forward to you know your institutional knowledge your

perspective the mentorship you give the city attorney's office all the work that

you do in the community and honestly your your leadership and your quiet

strength we look forward to working with you Gustavo congratulations would you

like to say anything? Well thank you Vice Mayor I appreciate the confidence and

and privilege of being the 40th city attorney

for this great city,

particularly in these unprecedented legal times

that we're living in.

It's a privilege to be here

and advance the bold initiatives of this council.

So thank you very much for the confidence in me.

Awesome, thank you so much.

Okay, so for members of the public,

We will be taking the consent calendar,

then the public hearing,

and I'll be moving item number 14 to discussion calendar

because a lot of members of the council have comments on it

and we have a large number of you

that have submitted public comment

and I look forward to hearing from you.

So with that being said, city clerk,

we have members signed up to speak

for the council on the consent calendar.

Anybody wanna make comment?

Actually from the dais.

So council member Kaplan.

Comments on item 3, 9, and 10?

3, 9, and 10.

Anyone else?

Seeing none, Council Member Kaplan.

All right, I'll make it quick, but I am really excited for item 3, which is establishing our special revenue fund for the SB20 red light camera fund.

We've been talking about how can we make our streets safer for those that roll, walk, bike, and this is just one way of new legislation that was passed.

passed by senator ashby at the state capitol which allows a different way for a civil penalty

for those that run red light cameras. I know that often we want our streets safer and we

are seeing too many tragedies on our streets and this is just one more tool in the toolbox.

It's not the answer but it's the tool. Thank you to staff for moving that forward. On item

Program 9 which is our 2026 planning zone and work program.

Want to thank staff especially for our missing middle housing program and our condos.

I just want to have make sure that we keep in mind we have got to find ways to continue

to streamline to make these smaller projects more viable because it is the beginning and

increases the amount of home ownership.

Also I hope that we can support at the state level one of the things I'm on Cal

Cities for the housing committee of discussing single-story walk-up they are

working with Cal Fire because there's been opposition on that but when you

look at you go to New York or Boston and some of the East Coast cities

regulations that we have in today make it impossible to build that and think

about a single-story lot that can have like six condos on it or town halls right

next to each other I think that shouldn't only be a possibility downtown but in our

suburbs to increase the amount of initial housing that those can can be in and I just

want to make sure that we continue to be vigilant in the conversations that we maintain the

amount of affordable rentable units that we have and be on the lookout on how we can expand

that so nobody is displaced. So I would love the support on the state level for a single story walk

up of making that a possibility for Sacramento. And then on item 10, which is our trash full capture

system design, something else that we need to be aware of. The state has decided to redefine some

things, which means that all of the cleanups you see, the River City Waterway Alliance,

who have over three years cleaned up 3 million pounds of trashes in our canals and waterways,

that the state has taken away the ability for the city to get credits for in-stream cleanups

in how we use funding in our waterways and how we implement the full trash capture system design.

So I hope that we as a city can work with the state water board requirements and add that back in because that was taken out.

And we should, as a city, engage the state water board around how we can receive credits or supports for cleaning up our streams and waterways because that prevention is better than the capture of the trash in our waterways.

And this is a multi-jurisdictional issue, so I hope we reach out to neighboring cities and we do that.

But these are some things that are really important happening at the state level that are hurting our ability to address climate change and others.

So if there's nothing else, I know we might have public comment, but I will make a motion on the consent calendar.

Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Maple.

Ms. Councilman Maple is going to make the motion because we have two items that are being completed.

If that's okay, I will make a motion that we move the consent calendar with item 13 and 15 being continued and item 14 moving to discussion.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

and we have public comment on this item.

Thank you.

So consent calendar, we're voting on items 1 through 12.

I have three speakers, the first on item 7 and 8,

and they did not put their name on the slip,

but then I have 8, Mary Frances Chacon, then Eben Burgin,

and if you've turned in a slip for item 7 and 8

but didn't put your name on it.

Lambert, Mr. Davis.

And then Mary Francis, then Eben.

Probably the first time I didn't put my name on that.

Seven and eight, you're talking about what's called P-bids.

And this is a sticky subject for me because I'm from Del Paso Heights,

and I'm happy to see that Northgate is getting a P-bid.

They deserve it. That's a very vibrant boulevard.

If you're a native, you know that.

But this one that says Midtown property, I think that should be moved because the person representing District 4 is not even here.

He should be able to cast a vote for that particular situation.

So that should be addressed.

and in del paso heights for the record we pay a lot of property taxes we pay a lot of business

taxes we've always wanted a separate pbid from district uh from uh del paso boulevard because

they've been very isolated towards del paso heights over the years i can remember my parents

had businesses. They couldn't even get part of any of the PBID advantages. My uncles and aunts,

I'm a native. And when I see things like this, it shows the double standards.

The double standard being Midtown. Midtown already has a PBID. It says on here, adding 13 businesses.

If you can add 13 businesses to an existing P bid, why can't you have a P bid for Del Paso Heights off of Marysville Boulevard?

Go from Marysville Boulevard to Raley Boulevard.

There's a lot of businesses there.

And one of the most successful businesses is called To the Bay and Back Cheesecakes, which went viral during Martin Luther King.

Thank you for your comments.

Mary Francis.

And the members of the audience, they're standing in the back, please take a seat.

Per fire marshal, we cannot have people standing in the aisle.

Hi, my name is Mary Francis.

I'm going for number eight, business improvement, mostly focusing on like safety for the business

improvement.

I stand here today not just as a speaker but as a member of this community as I've been managing Super Silver Sacramento in Old Sacramento for the past five years.

And in the past five years, I've witnessed Old Sacramento as a ghost town during COVID.

And I've witnessed the economy and tourism return and thrive in these last few years.

As tourism returns and our city becomes busier again, crime is also returning.

More visitors should mean more opportunity and more revenue, not more risk.

When public safety is not prioritized, crime doesn't just happen, it also thrives.

That reality hurts our small businesses, drives visitors away, and makes residents feel like they're on their own.

When streets feel unsafe, customers stay home, storefronts sit empty, and entrepreneurs think twice about investing here.

Our local businesses are the backbone of the city's economy, and they cannot thrive without visible, reliable public safety.

Small businesses don't just operate during office hours and neither do safety concerns.

I'm asking the city council to take decisive action to stop crime from taking root by putting safety first.

A city that allows crime to thrive is a city that holds itself back and we can do better.

Prioritizing public safety means backing it with real funding, not just words.

When safety budgets fall short, the consequences show up on our streets and our businesses and on how people feel moving through this city.

funding determines whether patrols are visible whether crowds are managed and whether crime is

prevented instead of reacted to investing in public safety is not an expense it's a commitment

to our residents our small businesses and our visitors I'm asking the council to fund safety

as at the level our city truly needs before the cost of an action becomes even greater

a safe city is a successful city thank you thank you for your comments Eben Burgen

and again members of the audience standing there's plenty of seats up front we do need you to take a

seat hello um distinguished council members and community members gathered today under this absurd

law i have come to turn myself in and seek mercy for this ordinance would have you believe that

for the last 15 plus years, my career in comics, from Isleten to Rio Linda, through collaborations

with libraries, schools, universities, museums, I have become a criminal mastermind inspiring

many thousands of Sacramento's youth toward the delinquent path of reading comic books.

As I said in my remarks to the subcommittee, comic books are an essential and vibrant force

for literacy, not delinquency. Studies have shown that comics create avid lifelong readers

and that their marriage of art and words create cross-cultural understanding and can only foster empathy.

I'd observed the impetus for removing this old law was born out of a proactive desire to remove it before harm is done by it.

Many gathered here today are here because our constitutional rights are yet again under assault today.

We, including youth, are witnessing government bodies taking aim at peaceful protesters protecting their immigrant neighbors.

We're watching senseless killings of Renee Goode and Alex Pretty and too much untold harm as the ice continues.

Reckless enforcement actions against our neighborhoods.

Comic books provide sanctuary for a vivid imagination.

They give respite from these horrors.

The true beauty of comics and graphic novels is that they can make sense out of senseless times.

many famous comics can teach

that teach us how fragile our rights are

when the powerful seek to break and bend them toward cruelty.

And even a meek and mild-mannered newsman

when confronted with that cruelty

will unleash his alter ego

and show his undocumented immigrant status

embodying resilience and strength

inspiring us to be hopeful, to be braver and bigger.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

So Vice Mayor, I may reiterate the motion.

Thank you.

So Vice Mayor, we have a motion by Council Member Maples, a second by Kaplan on items 1 through 12 on the consent calendar.

Item 13 will be continued to a future meeting.

Item 14 is moved to the discussion calendar.

And item 15 is continued to February 10th.

Correct.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Noes.

Abstentions.

Seeing none, it passes. Thank you.

And now we're moving along.

Item number 16 has been withdrawn for the time being.

So we're moving on to item number 17.

And then we will get to the immigration platform.

And clerk, I'd like to open the public hearing.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Christine Weikert, SHRA.

Staff is requesting approval to issue tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds and $2 million loan

consisting of permanent local housing allocation or PLHA funds for the I Street apartments.

The proposed new construction project will be located at 15th and I Street

and serve homeless earning approximately 30% to 80% of area median income.

There will be 84 one- and two-bedroom units.

The eight-story project will feature amenities such as bicycle storage, laundry rooms, outdoor courtyard, and also have a computer and community rooms.

In December, the project was awarded over $33 million in affordable housing and sustainable communities funds from the state of California,

and $21.8 million of that will go towards the housing development with the rest going to infrastructure improvements.

The developer is Community Housing Works, an experienced nonprofit affordable developer

who owns properties throughout California, including Sacramento.

Con M will provide the property management and Achieve will provide a minimum of 15 hours

of on-site resident services.

In closing, staffs requesting bond issuance and a $2 million loan for the I Street Apartments

and I'm available to answer any questions you may have.

Ms. Clark, is there any public comment on this item?

I have no public comment on Item 17.

Okay, so Mayor Pro Tem Guerra.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.

First, I want to thank staff on continuing to look at how we ensure that we're building more housing,

and particularly housing for many of the folks who work here in the area.

I want to thank you for taking into consideration also active transportation and the bike parking issue.

That particularly becomes a challenge.

With that, Vice Mayor, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing and move the item.

And I just want to appreciate SHRA's work on this.

I know we've got other projects moving ahead.

And I'm philimbustering until they're ready here.

Vice Mayor, thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member Dickinson.

Just a couple things looking through.

not to do with the basics of the project,

which I fully support,

but I was just curious.

One of the items specified is to fence this building.

That's what I read in the description.

The fencing of the property?

Fence the property.

And I looked at the site plan,

and I was a little hard-pressed to understand why,

especially since this will be restricted entry into the building and the building will occupy virtually all the property,

why it would need to be fenced.

I mean, it's not a great look to fence a building like this, it doesn't seem to me.

So, Christine, can you offer some thought on that?

Well, typically, I know they would have worked for the planning department,

so we can get back to you with some more information on that.

But typically the affordable housing developers want to make sure, as you said, that there's controlled access to the lot and the building.

This only has seven parking places, but it's important to make sure we know who's coming and going from that parking area.

So that's what the fence is for, is controlled access, basically.

So access to the parking spaces is not restricted?

I believe the fence is not restricted.

Well, absent defense, it wouldn't be restricted for access.

Right, just to control the ground.

Which, of course, is not that unusual in the Corps either.

But it just, you know, it starts to look like a fort.

We could absolutely revisit that.

I don't think, you know, this is early in the process.

They'll have to come back to get the rest of their entitlements and permits.

So we can revisit that with the developer and planning.

I think that would be worth taking a look at.

I mean, I think you want this to look like anything else

that gets built private or public in that respect

and not give it an appearance that makes it look like

it's somehow different in a negative way.

So that was one thing that caught my eye.

The second was there was a rather simple rendering of it attached.

The architecture didn't look exactly thrilling.

and so I just, I wondered if as this project gets developed in terms of the

architecture there aren't some features that could be added or

incorporated in order to make it a little more than just like a box?

Absolutely, it'll go through some design review at the city and I'm sure it'll be more attractive.

Look forward to seeing how what that yields. Thanks. Okay, thanks Vice Mayor.

Thank you so much. So we are close the public hearing and move the item and Roger seconded.

All in favor please say aye. Aye. Nose? Abstentions? Okay.

Seeing none. Okay. So we are moving along to the immigration platform. First of all,

thank you so much for being here.

I think that Minneapolis has shown us what's possible when government, faith-based, community-based organizations, small businesses, advocates, and people come together to fight back, I guess, an authoritarian government.

And they have shown us the way.

and they stood united together.

And unfortunately, we've had a lot of tragedies in the last month.

And people in Sacramento are living with fear.

People are scared.

People are nervous.

People are nervous to call the police department.

People are nervous to ask for help.

Kids are scared to go to school.

People are scared to ask for government resources,

afraid that they're going to get on the list.

and there's just a lot going on in our country.

And today, I mean, us as the Sacramento City Council,

we have this immigration platform

and we have an ordinance to ban city facilities

from ICE from using from city facilities

here in the city of Sacramento,

which will be heard at Law & Ledge next month.

We're living in really tough times and really scary times.

And us as a council, we had put this on the consent calendar

because we all agree.

that we need to stand up to this bullying.

We all agree that we can't let fear be a weapon.

And just seeing the number of people that are here,

we decided to move it to the discussion calendar

because I think everybody here on this dais wants to chime in.

We have 652 e-comments.

Thank you, Saki Dora.

That's beautiful.

And, like, we've been hearing reports of community vigils

and community getting together to hold space.

That's beautiful.

That's what we need to continue doing.

So far, we have 72 public commenters signed up to speak.

Oh, 97.

97.

97.

And then it's my understanding that there's probably about 60 people outside still.

How many?

60.

Okay.

So this is what we're going to do.

We're going to take the speaker slips from the people outside up until 2.45.

Typically when we start an agenda item is when we close the speaker slips.

So we're going to add another 10 minutes.

We're going to keep the two minutes public comment.

So once you're done with public comment, if you want to stay, wonderful.

And if not, go outside and maybe listen from the council chambers or from your phone so that the other people that have signed up to do public comment can come in.

Because of fire reasons, if you cannot stand, please don't stand in the back.

Please have a seat.

There's a few seats open over here.

Per our fire marshal, we really need everybody to sit down.

and then we will start probably three people

single file line down the middle

so if we can get a message and somebody from the clerk's office

to hand out speaker slips outside we will collect those until 2 45

so if you have a friend tell them they have about well now nine more minutes to go

and we will get this started we look forward to hearing from you

and after that the city council will have council deliberations

and we will go from there thank you for being here

Thank you.

Yep.

Please call the first five speakers.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

And I'm going to call a few names at a time.

Please be respectful of the speakers.

If you can line up in the mid aisle, that would be appreciated.

The first is Jim Gonzalez, Giselle Garcia, Ruth Ibarra, and then Moyes.

And I do have 97 speakerships.

That's over three hours of comments.

So please be respectful of the speakers.

Jim.

Thank you very much, Madam Mayor, members of the City Council.

My name is Jim Gonzalez.

I'm here representing the Latino Economic Council and also Cien Amigos working for California and Mexico.

It is personally very disturbing to me to be here after 35 years ago when I had the privilege on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors of passing the first sanctuary ordinance in the country.

Not a resolution, an ordinance, which by law created guardrails for police, sheriffs, and other city employees not to cooperate and become de facto immigration agents.

Now, almost 35 years later, we're seeing an administration blaming cities and counties for standing up for their immigrant population and protecting them.

And that has to continue because sanctuary ordinances are not to blame for the violence that is being visited upon by ICE and DHS and the White House administration.

We have a responsibility to understand that immigrants is what makes our society strong.

In construction, in hotels, in restaurants, in our schools, in childcare, in every aspect of society.

And persecuting people for the color of their skin or their accent or where they came from is un-American.

It is authoritarian. It is fascist. And it needs to be called out to be that.

I urge, I applaud your city attorney, Gustavo, and others who I've worked with in talking about how to update sanctuary resolutions and, most important, police procedures.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Giselle Garcia, Ruth Ibarra, Moyes.

And then if Oswaldo Ortiz will come to the front, you did not put a number on your speaker slip.

Your time is complete. Please take your seat.

Take your seat, please. Your time is complete.

Giselle?

Hi, I'm deferring my time to Ruth.

Does NorCal resist?

NorCal resist.

So we're all here to abolish.

Ayes.

Abolish.

Ayes.

Abolish.

Ayes.

Abolish.

Ayes.

Because they're assholes.

All right.

Good afternoon.

My name is Ruth Ibarra.

I'm speaking both as a Sacramento resident of District 6

and a representative for NorCal Resist as their executive director.

It is imperative that the City of Sacramento strengthen its sanctuary policy today by voting to enact the updated sanctuary policy introduced by Council Members Guerra, Vang, and Talamantes.

What we need is a robust policy that truly puts our impacted neighbors' safety first, not some watered-down proposal without teeth that is used to boost your political clout.

Markel Resist is seeing firsthand how our immigrant neighbors are being traumatized by the ever-changing current immigration system.

We have seen the fear they face when attending their court hearings and ICE check-ins.

The fear they feel when they get a knock on the door by mass federal agents from ICE, E-R-O, D-E-A, F-B-I, F-P-S.

the sadness that they endure when a loved one is detained and impact and the impact it has

not just emotionally but economically the panic when they get the call from ISAP to check in

out of the blue our volunteers have witnessed the atrocious manner in which ICE and ISAP staff

treat our immigrant neighbors who are your constituents.

Our volunteers have also been facing federal agents' mistreatment

every day at the John Moss building

or in the street when responding to ICE enforcement alerts

to support detained neighbors.

These are the folks that are dealing with this on a daily basis.

Since the beginning of our Court Watch program,

federal officers have sexually...

thank you for your comments your time is complete our next speaker is ruth ibarra then moise

ma'am your speaker's time is complete you have two minutes

so ruth ruth you've spoken for two minutes your time is complete

ruth your time is complete

Ruth, by continuing to speak, you're disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting.

You're now in violation of Chapter 5 of the City Council Rules of Procedure.

If you do not stop, you'll be ordered to leave the meeting.

Do you understand this warning?

Hey, hey, hey, okay, please, everybody.

Please, please, please, please, please.

So per our City Council Rules of Procedure, it's each person two minutes.

So I think you took yourselves.

but we typically don't do that unless it's Spanish speaking only.

So can you start reading the script that Ruth is reading off of?

Because we have to be consistent.

I'm sorry.

We have to be consistent.

We always do two minutes even when we have...

These officers have to humanize and terrorize our neighbors

or constituents throughout our city.

They have a bunch of people.

They have a bunch of people.

They have a fucking stupid fucking baby.

Okay.

This public update is long overdue, and it's a shame that we have five minutes for

our already for now.

We brought this up a long time ago when we started seeing—

Ruth Ibarra, by continuing to speak, you're disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting.

You're in violation of Chapter 5 of the City Council Rules of Procedure.

If you do not stop, you will be ordered to leave the meeting.

Do you understand this warning?

Please return to your seat.

You're in violation of the city council rules the procedure.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

All right, so.

No cow resist, thank you for all the work that you do.

But.

Ruth and her team have been on the front lines of all this

And I mean, I'm very appreciative for all the work that they do.

We do have over 100 speakers.

So if we want to continue and hear from everyone, we will need everybody to stick up to the two minutes.

If we can't do that, then we're just going to have to shut down council chambers.

And I don't want to do that.

I want to hear from everybody.

So please, like, we're going to do two minutes each person.

Okay.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

Next speaker.

Afternoon.

My name is Moyes and I'm the Organizing and Advocacy Manager for Asian American Liberation Network.

This resolution is not sufficiently responsive to the demands of the Community Accountability Letter sent on November 18th.

I am disappointed it does not have teeth, a plan for implementation to ensure change.

In just the five days since today's agenda was posted, as you said, over 650 Sacramentans have responded to our call to leave public comment online on this item.

Thank you to everyone who has and will comment about why this is important.

Sacramento is demanding action from our city council to stop ICE. On Thursday at

the federal building where community has been regularly gathering to protest, a

federal agent hit a community member in a vehicle before driving away in a hit

and run. Rather than receive help, the person who was hit was then arrested by

agents wearing DHS markers with no jurisdiction on our city streets and

somehow transferred to the county jail with nonsensical federal charges before

eventually being released. Federal agents are out of control from Sacramento to

to Minneapolis. On September 15th, just upstairs in Mayor McCarty's office, I met with his staff

on these topics. The mayor did not attend that meeting like he did not attend tonight.

I flagged the need for a statement of values through a birthright citizenship resolution,

which still has not moved forward, as well as tangible policy solutions like a data sanctuary

ordinance that Los Angeles and other cities are already implementing to strengthen their sanctuary

protections. We want to ensure Sacramento's total non-cooperation with federal immigration

enforcement. Passing this resolution is a start, but we need tangible change in city operations.

Hold the city's police department accountable for intimidating and interfering with protests at the

federal building. Enact a data sanctuary ordinance. Pass the birthright citizenship resolution.

Incorporate the full proposals in the community accountability letter that was resubmitted to

yesterday, particularly a prohibition on the use of any city property by federal immigration

enforcement. A better world is possible.

Clerk, will you please call the next three speakers and please line up in the middle aisle.

Christopher C. Barb R. Paul Winders. Bridget. Amma. Christopher.

Let me know when you're ready.

Good afternoon.

My name is Christopher Camilo Carvajal Carvajal.

I'm the program and campaign coordinator for Ticaragua City Sacramento,

and I'm here because of a loss this system created.

I was a child, six years old, with my father, Camilo,

was taken by immigration enforcement.

I watched officers stand outside my home, arrest him,

jail him, and eventually deport him to Mexico.

That moment split my family in half.

My mom became a single parent overnight.

We lived in fear, instability, and survival.

My father never made it home.

He died after 20 years of forced separation.

I never got to live a full life with him.

I had to travel 2,000 miles just to bury him.

And now, 20 years out of a lifetime, I grieve him across the border.

So when you talk about sanctuary, please understand this is not abstract to me.

Sanctuary is whether a child gets to grow up with their parents.

Sanctuary is whether a family gets to stay whole.

sanctuary is where the grief becomes a lifelong inheritance today in the midst of raised

disappearances and fear in our communities due to policing that grief is loud again and it's just

not mine it belongs to families across this damn city passing this resolution matters but it's not

enough it's sanctuary's only language and it does not protect anyone if it is not enforced it is not

real if there's no accountability it is not safety we need more than a platform we need

implementation. We need non-cooperation with federal immigration enforcement that is binding

and not symbolic. We need no data sharing, no city property use, no collaboration in practice.

We need real accountability for the Sacramento Police Department because sanctuary does not

exist only in documents. It exists in community safety and people's lives. No one should have to

bury their parent thousands of miles away across the border. No one should grow up with an empty

chair at a table. No one should live a lifetime marked by forced separation like I have. And yet

families in Sacramento are still living this reality every single day.

Pass this resolution and make sanctuary real and forcible and lived in Sacramento.

Thank you.

Barb and then Paul.

Barb Ram.

So that's a little intimidating to follow that.

But what I just want to point out and highlight is that, again, my representative is not here, nor is the mayor.

And wouldn't that be nice if they heard everybody?

Although you're doing a pretty good job, Vice Mayor.

So I support agenda item 14 because I support all the residents of Sacramento.

And I would demand the city and council members and the mayor, if he was here, to move beyond symbolic language like from Phil Pluckybaum.

I condemn the rampant bulldozing of our community's civil rights.

But does he really condemn the rampant bulldozing of our community's tent homes,

personal belongings, homeless communities?

I don't think so.

Being a city of refuge must mean safety in everyday life, not just a value statement.

Public statements of support must be matched by concrete policies and protections.

And I just want to second everything that Christopher said.

I hope you do the right thing.

Hello, Paul Winders, Fair Deneter Town.

Does anybody know why the mayor and my representative aren't here?

Does anybody know?

Because they're pussy.

Okay.

Anyway.

Okay.

Please use your comments.

I are not trained law enforcement.

They have weapons.

For me to get a concealed weapon four years ago, I had to take a college class, go one

night a week for four months and PC 832 and know when and when you can't pull a gun out.

They're just pulling their guns out, aiming at people.

They don't plan on shooting and shooting people they shouldn't shoot.

They should have ID numbers on them, inch and a half high numbers or letters sewn on

their outside garment or on a very easy big ass badge you can read from 50 feet away.

They're not seeking law enforcement people care about justice.

This is law fair.

using the law to fight. They're advertising for white people in small

towns in the Midwest with Nazi slogan kind of stuff, tattoos, flexing. We have

an asshole convert our Defense Department or Department of War by a guy

that wants a peace prize. It's a bad movie. They need to shut down ICE for

these 45 days, documented training and documentation of who's there. Somebody

gets detained within 12 hours, they have to be in a publicly accessible database.

When they get moved within 12 hours, publicly accessible database. They have

to be accountable. And one thing I know there was, I've been down a couple times.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Bridget is our next speaker.

I'm Bridget. I live in, I'm a homeowner actually in District 7. And I debated a lot what I wanted to say today because I personally experienced the forced deportation of a family member who was ripped away from our family overnight.

No one knew where he went.

This was actually many years ago before the current reign of terror.

And I see now how members of my family and my friends changed how they move through this world because they're afraid.

They're afraid to go to work.

They're afraid to take walks through the city.

But there's something else I want to talk about that feels really shameful that is a concern,

but it's something that my friends and I talk a lot about, which is I'm a business owner.

I have a house.

My kitchen is in really bad shape.

It needs to be remodeled.

And I think, how do I move forward with anything in this environment that we're in?

How do I pull the trigger on hiring people to remodel my house when the people coming to work on it could just disappear?

When I feel like our democracy could just disappear from us?

and I'm constantly looking for what is the thing that gives me the confidence to stay and make investments

and run my business and support others and ask them to support me financially in return that way

and how do I make decisions?

And I need to see that the people who are representing are fighting back.

I need to see that we're not rolling over because I think we do see that when we do fight back,

it makes a difference.

like right now even Minneapolis there's like a softening right like there's

repercussions based on the way the community members are standing up and I

know we can't solve all of these problems but we can protect the members

of our communities and that's what I'm asking for and what we expect

Alma and Lena and Shiloh

ICE is the clearest and most violent sign that our government does not serve the people.

As a public servant myself, I believe it is our duty to protect others in the capacity that we are able.

And as a city council for the capital of the most progressive state,

you have a responsibility to set that precedent nationwide, protecting our own.

But it has taken far too long, and it is very disappointing how long it took us to get here.

The oligarchical control of media, the mass arrests, the brutal mistreatment of peaceful protesters,

and increasing murder rates are textbook qualities of an authoritarian and fascist government.

We tolerated the violence the U.S. enacted on other subjugated countries,

and now those same tactics are being used on us in the name of quote-unquote protection.

We are told not to trust our eyes and ears that cooperation was all that was asked of us,

but the message is clear. If you do not cooperate, we will kill you.

I urge the City Council not just to expand our policy, to keep ice away from our community,

but to create concrete and transparent steps to prevent SAC police collab with ICE,

to create an actionable plan in a publicly available document to limit information from the city to ICE.

Everyone is watching, obviously, not just our direct community,

though they are all watching together and we are disappointed with how long it has taken.

But other states, other countries, our children and our futures,

everyone will know the direct actions we took now and when they come for us.

Thank you.

Alina?

If I cry, the cry is anger.

Hello, my name is Alina, and I'm here to call in Sacramento to take a long-term, proactive action

to establish our city as a true refuge for immigrants.

Immigrants are not new to Sacramento.

They are the reason Sacramento exists as it does today.

They built the agricultural foundation of this city when it was still developing, and they continue to feed us every day.

Their labor, culture, and families are woven into the fabric of this city.

Right now, people are being forced to live in fear.

People have built their lives here.

People have put down roots, started families and creative community, are afraid of being taken into humanizing and humiliating ways.

On the streets, in their homes, and at their place of work, at school, people are disappearing in ISIS custody,

with families left behind and no answers about where their loved ones are and where they have gone.

This is not a distant threat. This is happening now.

This harm is immediate. Sacramento's response has been slow and inadequate. Delay is a choice. Silence is a choice. And in this moment like this, those choices put lives at risk. We do not need symbolic statements. We need real long-term protections established now.

California has always claimed leadership, but leadership means acting before more people are

hurt. The people who have labored on this land for generations deserve safety, dignity, and

protection, not fear. Thank you.

Shiloh, then Karen Humphrey, then KM, Brock, and Marlene.

Good afternoon. I am a resident of District 1, and I want to speak not as an activist or a resident, but as a mother.

District 1 is not just a collection of neighborhoods. It's a home we share.

It's the laughter of our children in our parks, the mosaic of languages spoken at our schools, and the deep pride of families.

Our district is one of the most beautifully diverse districts in the country.

It is the 87th most diverse zip code in the United States, and it's a reflection of who we choose to be.

Many of our neighbors live in quiet fear.

Children worry about the knock on the door.

My own sons, who were born at Kaiser Roosevelt, now currently, because they speak Spanish and have a Hispanic last name,

carry a copy of their passports in their backpacks when they go to high school.

My son is a lifeguard at the city pool.

Is he safe if ice comes knocking?

Every day my children walk home from school, risk being stopped because they look Hispanic, they are Hispanic,

and purred to the Supreme Court's Kavanaugh rule, we know that they can be stopped and detained.

I see ice vehicles lurking in many of the residential parts of District 1,

And it is only a matter of time before this administration realizes that the heart of California's resistance from its lawsuits to its laws, new laws, come from Sacramento.

For perspective, Minneapolis is 420,000 residents.

Sacramento is more than 500,000.

It's not about if, but when.

We deserve policies that reflect our compassion.

This measure is not enough.

A promise is not enough. We need to do more.

I'm asking you please to strengthen our policies, but also make actions happen.

I urge you to listen to what people are saying here today,

but also think about my sons with their passports in their bags.

Yes.

Karen Humphrey.

Karen Humphrey.

Mayor and Council members, thank you. Thank you for listening to all of the people here.

I'm speaking mainly from the National Women's Political Caucus, which as a national organization

with local and state groups took a position, a very strong position against what is happening

in this country and will be working as we can in D.C. to change things. But everything that's

been said to you today is meaningful. I have not had somebody picked up by ICE, but I can empathize

with what is going on. And the pain I'm hearing today can't totally be resolved, but hopefully

you can help make it go away. We are, it's time to put an end to it. And I agree that there need

to be teeth in this ordinance. It's not an ordinance, it's a resolution. There need to be

specific teeth in an action plan for how to make sure that the city of Sacramento is in no way

complicit with this unconstitutional, unlawful, and horrific, and frankly, very cruel regimen that

we're in now. It's part of a systematic effort of this president and his minions to impose a white

autocracy on the United States. And any resemblance to a police state is not coincidental. So I urge

you to work with the members of NorCal Resist and any other person here who could be a resource

on how to make this sanctuary city status real, how to help it be stronger, how to take the

resistance that is here and strengthen it nationally. And don't be fooled by the fact

that the resistance in Minneapolis and other places has pushed the administration back slightly.

Don't be fooled by that. They will simply regroup. This is a long-term effort, and it's a very,

very horrible effort, not just for immigrants, all the people who are sitting in jail right now

in horrific conditions, and all the people who are afraid to do anything. So I,

the city can be a real leader, and I really... Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete.

Members of the audience, if you're standing in the back, please take a seat. I will have to ask

you to leave if you're not seated in a green chair. So you may not sit in the aisles. You may

not stand in the aisles. There's a safety concern. So please take your seats. There's plenty of seats

up front. There's some here. Thank you. K.M. Brock, Marlene, Alex Pazari. And clerk, how are we doing

with the outside chambers? We have about 22 additional speakers in the lobby. Okay, thank you.

So after you give public comment, if you want to allow the other speakers to come in too, if you so choose.

Good afternoon. I am a concerned member of the Sacramento community, and I'm asking you to expand the city of Sacramento's sanctuary policies and to strengthen our local protections against ice activity targeting our community.

pretty much echoing what's already been said is what I would say if I have had more time.

So all of this means moving beyond symbolic language and to make commitments to immigrants

and refugee communities through policy implementation and accountability.

Being a safe city must mean safety in everyday life.

Immigrants are valued and important members of our community, and they're very worthy of this safety.

Leadership means preparing before harm occurs, not responding after.

Creating and implementing policies and accountability for safety must be rooted in trust, clarity, and protection.

Some of the things that I think we need to do are we need to ensure that Sacramento Police Department protects the rights of residents to peacefully assemble on city-owned properties, public spaces, particularly around the John Moss Federal Building.

We need to make sure that we have full non-cooperation from the city in allowing ICE to conduct enforcement activities on city properties.

And prohibiting law enforcement officials from wearing masks while conducting enforcement activities.

This is very important to me and very important to many people.

I'm tired of hearing and seeing my community members in fear, you know, living in fear all the time now, being very nervous.

So thank you very much.

Next speaker is Brock.

Hello, my name is Brock and I'm a resident of District 6.

As the actions of ICE in Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, Portland, and already here have shown,

we need to take being a sanctuary city more seriously than ever.

What I've seen federal forces do to people,

both non-citizens and citizens, regular constituents,

and elected officials in the last year or so is frankly terrifying.

We don't feel safe with ICE operating out of our city in any capacity.

I've seen many communities this last year come together to resist and push back,

defending themselves using local municipal policy courts and good old-fashioned organizing and coming together as neighbors.

We can push back against these attacks on our communities by federal forces,

and we can come out of this stronger for having done so.

We want our local government with us in this effort.

We need you, our representatives, to ensure our government is not used against us,

that no data is shared with ICE, that demonstrators and observers are left alone by local police,

and that local police do not assist ICE in attacking our community like they have fatally in so many other cities.

What recent experience has shown is that we need to get serious now.

The expansion of our city sanctuary policies under consideration today are a step in that direction,

and I urge you to make them actionable and not to leave your constituents alone in defending themselves.

Thank you.

Marlene Heath.

Hi, my name is Marlene Heath.

I am a resident of District 6.

Hi, Eric.

I will probably lose my job being here.

I was supposed to be at work.

Thank you.

So it's unfortunate that the mayor is not here to hear us.

The actions of ICE are not to make law or create safety.

They're to raise intimidation and fear.

I'm not afraid.

Don't be afraid.

And what I say at a national level is a real lack of leadership.

Our Congress members, they're not doing their jobs,

and it's going to be dependent on us as a community.

We need to rely on each other and we need to rely on our city to protect ourselves from what's going on throughout the rest of the country.

And I really need to have confidence that you guys will be our leaders and that we can all come together and protect our constitutional rights and our neighbors, our immigrant neighbors, and America and us.

It starts here.

We can do this.

And I know you guys can do this for us and we can all do this together.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Alex is our next speaker, then Francis L., then Christina, Cassidy, Nancy, and Manola.

Hi, I'm Erin.

I'm a Sacramento resident and an emergency room nurse.

I'm speaking on behalf of all the patients that we get in our hospitals who are frankly frightened these days.

A lot of my patients, you know, they're coming to us with emergencies.

They're in tears.

I've had immigrants, patients tell me that they didn't, they're delaying care.

And these are, you know, patients who are here legally.

They're members of our community with jobs and, like, a purpose and families that love them.

And as we've seen in other examples in, like, Costa Contra and Concord and other, like, neighboring hospitals,

that ICE has been showing up at the very minimum as a show of force

to show patients as well as staff that they are not safe,

that they should be threatened,

that they have an army waiting outside ready to pull them out

the second they are discharged.

While they do have rights of public space,

I would like to see the people of Sacramento that represent us

showing up so that they support their citizens

more than these federal agents and their fascist policies

to show that they will be here,

that our police officers feel supported

in supporting their hospital and their community

over these federal agents and their fascist policies.

I want our patients to come and know that they are safe

and that they are not going to risk being deported

because the city has their back.

I love the city. I love the people in it.

We can do better than this.

We've done great things for now.

I would like to see as an amendment to this outline

that we do add language to protect hospitals,

to protect patients, and to protect the staff

that is trying to protect these patients

and so they're not going to jail

when they protect their patients.

Frances?

Frances?

Please proceed.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, my name is Frances Liu.

I'm a resident of District 4 and an organizer with Decarcerate Sacramento.

For months, community members have demanded for the city council to update its sanctuary

city policies with concrete measures to protect our residents from ICE and advocate for the

free speech of protesters targeted by Sacramento's police department with very limited engagement.

An updated letter from 25 community groups was sent yesterday reaffirming our demands.

Today's proposed update to the city's immigration platform is wholly inadequate

to address our concerns.

It contains platitudes and symbolic gestures

that will do little to protect our community

from being abducted, kidnapped, and murdered by ICE agents.

I want to express deep gratitude

to Council Member Mai Vang and her staff

for their leadership, engaging with community members

and proposing policy updates

and advocating for an action plan.

Council Members, Garen Talmontes,

I appreciate your support of her policy,

and I hope you'll continue to match your words of action.

I will repeat what I said in November. How can Sacramento call itself a sanctuary city when its own police department is targeting community members who are protesting against ICE?

I am not naive enough to ask that PD to protect our community members from ICE.

They are both part of the same system of state policing that targets and harms our black and brown neighbors.

However, I ask each of you to do the work to keep them out of our way.

Leadership is defined by action, not elections or titles.

I'm honored to be in this room filled with leaders from my community,

protesters outside the federal building, neighbors doing ice watch,

organizations fighting for immigrant rights and against policing.

I invite the mayor and the members of the council to join us.

Take action, take leadership, and protect our community.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Christina.

Christina?

Next speaker is Christina.

Hi, my name is Christina.

I'm a community member, an organizer with API Force, and most importantly, the child of Vietnamese refugees.

I'm seeing my communities in absolute fear of ICE here.

My parents, grandparents, and loved ones all carry their passports and IDs everywhere they go, but still shaking in fear.

Our family has to make backup plans if a family member of ours is going to be taken,

and having to explain to my younger siblings and cousins the dangers we're facing from ICE, that is not safety.

Let's be clear.

ICE has never made our community safer.

I am absolutely horrified by the state violence we are witnessing from ICE against our friends,

family, and neighbors.

We're seeing ICE tear apart families, kidnap children off the streets, and publicly execute

people protecting their neighbors.

And here in Sacramento, an immigration court watch volunteer was hospitalized after being

attacked outside the John Moss Federal Building, engaging in community safety work.

Sacramento City Council cannot stay silent or passive while this is happening.

ICE informant does not create public safety and we cannot stand for this and

as elected officials it is your job to serve the people and that's why I'm

urging you to straighten our sanctuary ordinance and local protection against

ICE activity but that's just the bare minimum we need a commitment to get ICE

out of our homes and cities and abolish ICE. Sacramento must protect our people

and our immigrant communities. Thank you.

I'd like to remind members of the audience, I cannot have you standing in the back.

If you want to take a seat, there's plenty of space up here to my left.

Cassidy, then Nancy.

Good afternoon, City Council members.

My name is Cassidy Vang.

I grew up in District 8.

I am a community advocacy organizer with Mong Innovating Politics.

I'm here today to ask you to support strengthening our local protections against ICE activity,

targeting our community.

I'm here because for many immigrant and refugee families in Sacramento,

the idea of being a sanctuary city does not always feel real in their day-to-day lives.

Sacramento often describes itself as a city of refuge, but refuge isn't a slogan.

It's whether people feel safe going to work, taking their kids to school,

or calling the city for help without fear that their information could be used against them.

Immigrants are essential to the city.

They build our housing, staff our kitchens, harvest and prepare our food,

care for our elders, and keep entire industries running.

When we fail to protect them, we are choosing to make the backbone of our city more vulnerable.

That's why symbolic support is not enough.

Non-binding platforms and resolutions don't protect families on their way to work or parents trying to access city services.

If Sacramento is going to call itself a sanctuary city, those words must be backed by clear policies, real implementation, and accountability.

We're asking the city to expand its sanctuary policies and clearly commit to non-cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Protection cannot be reactive.

It cannot only show up when there's public pressure or political attention.

It has to be consistent and ongoing.

This is about trust.

When people don't feel safe, fear shapes every decision they make, and that hurts everyone.

Sacramento has the chance to choose real protection over performative language.

We urge you to act.

Please protect our community by voting yes on this item and advocating for stronger policies.

Thank you.

Nancy.

Good afternoon. My name is Nancy Zhang and I live in District 7.

I'm the executive director for Hmong Innovating Politics, but

most importantly I'm the proud auntie of 29 nephews and

nieces. We are part of the Hmong American

community and we came here to escape war and persecution.

Now I watch my nieces and nephews grow up afraid of who might come to their

door, afraid their classmates won't be at the school the next day. The thought of anyone being

harmed is unbearable. I've heard some Sacramento politicians say they're worried about being too

aggressive, that it could be a target on their back. Here's the reality. ICE is already hurting

our families and terrorizing our communities. Every minute you don't act, that target gets bigger

because they know they can get away with it.

Sacramento cannot wait.

We need an action plan to protect our loved ones.

We need policies that prevent our city from collaborating with ICE,

emergency support for families when a breadwinner is detained,

mental health resources for young people seeing this violence every single day,

and accountability so local law enforcement protects our peaceful protests

instead of turning riot gear on neighbors standing up for one another.

Right now, 3,800 children are being held in detention by this fascist administration, cut off from their families.

I think about my nieces and my nephew.

I think about what we're doing to protect them.

Frankly, it's not enough.

Please do better.

We deserve better.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Manola Sakara.

Following Manola is Carly East, then Tina Reynolds.

Then Marcelina.

Good afternoon.

I'm Manola Sicaida, and I'm a resident of Sacramento's District 4.

I have seen more fear among friends and loved ones,

as many have these past few months, and especially in recent weeks.

Fear of a lawless law enforcement.

Fear that their lives could turn upside down,

even when they're following all the rules.

A fear that in actuality is already turning their lives upside down right now.

People are changing their lives to survive.

I've seen entire neighborhoods shut down for days.

This is not right.

We are seeing a fascist regime rise in real time.

Now is not the time for empty words and labels.

If Sacramento is to be a sanctuary city, that needs to have real teeth and needs to be enforceable.

I join others in asking that we strengthen our city's sanctuary policies.

That includes ensuring that Sac PD does not work in conjunction with ICE and that ICE agents are not able to conduct business on city property.

It's imperative that our city council show up with the strongest possible voice to say no to this right now.

Thank you for listening.

Clara?

Clara?

Hello, my name is Catherine Alarcade.

I'm a relatively new resident of Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood.

As of June of last year,

I'm old enough to have walked into this city with Cesar Chavez.

And it breaks my heart to see this sanctuary city also as having been raised Catholic.

Sanctuary is sacred.

And I am a retired pediatric nurse.

the thought of children's mental health and very real danger,

afraid to go to school, that they will come home and their parents will be gone.

This is damage that will take their lifetimes to overcome.

Please honor sanctuary. Keep ice away from our children.

Clara, Clara East, then Tina Reynolds.

So Clara East, Tina Reynolds, Marcelina, Priscilla, and Grace.

Thank you, Council members, for allowing me to speak today.

I want you to know I'm not a paid activist.

I'm here.

I'm a resident of District 7.

And I want you to know my mother was an immigrant.

She was 14 when the war ended in Germany in World War II.

She got to see the ethnic cleansing that went on there, spoke of it often.

You know, I feel this is really important for us here in Sacramento

because none of us is safe.

when ICE can break down doors and enter people's homes without any warrant.

It's not just people of color.

They're taking the brunt of it, but none of us is safe.

And so I'm really encouraging you to put some teeth into this resolution

and do what's right.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Tina Reynolds.

Tina?

Honorable City Council.

My name is Tina Reynolds, and I am here representing the Badassery Group.

I don't have written notes, but I have feelings that I'd like to share.

January 27th of last year, we met with Mayor McCarty to talk about Sanctuary City.

And when we brought it up, our group has a policy and researcher,

and we were ready to assist the city in writing stronger policies.

and Mayor McCarty said he was not interested.

He didn't want to raise any red flags

and he didn't want to draw any attention to Sacramento

because he was afraid the Trump administration

was going to come in and guess what?

They're here.

And now we've lost all this time where we could really be...

We've lost all this time where we really could

write some substantial sanctuary city rules and regulations.

we could make it out of cement rather than the flimsy paper that it's written on now.

The city has access to researchers, but you have access to a full city of people that are ready to stand up and help rewrite a policy.

Now, these are very knowledgeable people that have information that you can use so that we can build up this sanctuary city and put it into concrete.

The Badassery Group wrote a protocol for what happens to the city when ICE knocks on your door.

There was no policy.

We worked with Council Member Vang, and you moved the protocol forward on what to do with ICE.

all I want to do is crush ice.

Marcelina.

Hi, good afternoon.

My name is Marcelina.

I'm born and raised in South Sac

and today I'm representing the Sacramento Immigration Committee.

Last Thursday afternoon, one of our members was hit by a truck

driven by a masked agent while expressing his right

to record ice activity at the John Moss Federal Building.

Executions at the hand of ice have been rampant across the country,

and our member could have easily been the next person killed in that instant.

He now faces misdemeanor charges that we're fighting to drop.

Sacramento needs an immigration platform that will stop violence like this before it happens

and that has teeth to enforce our sanctuary status, not symbolic gestures.

Our committee has been walking around the surrounding neighborhoods of South Sac

that were affected by the ice raids a few months back,

And what we're hearing from people is that they don't understand how or why this is happening and why you guys haven't done anything to do anything about it.

It's why our SAC Immigration Committee is demanding eyes out of SAC, legalization for all, and an end to the deportations.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Priscilla.

Following Priscilla is Grace, L.R. Roberts, Gabrielle, then Kayla Ziong.

Priscilla.

Good afternoon.

My name is Priscilla and I'm a member of the Sacramento

immigration committee.

While we were on our monthly barrio walk last Saturday,

I connected with the young indigenous youth who expressed

the terror they feel because of what is happening.

They are 15 years old and they attend McClatchy High.

Every morning during the week,

they have to get themselves up and off to school.

Their mother is unable to accompany them

because she works at 4 a.m.

Every time this young human gets on the bus

and the light rail, they feel panic,

fearing that they will be the next one targeted

simply for existing while native.

Colonial forces like DHS and ICE

are targeting anyone they see as other,

even those who were here on this land

long before the white man.

What is happening is causing unimaginable pain

to our communities.

Sacramento fancies itself as a beacon of progress

and forward thinking,

a place where all people are not only welcome,

but celebrated.

It is the duty of the city to put their ideals into action.

We need to protect our communities.

Sacramento Immigration Committee demands the end to the racist targeting of our neighbors,

and we demand ICE out of Sacramento.

Grace, then Ella Roberts.

Hello, my name is Grace.

I'm a resident of District 4.

I'm here today to urge the City Council to support expanding the City of Sacramento's sanctuary policies

and to strengthen our local protections against ICE activity targeting our community.

While today's resolution is a good first step, we need more than symbolic action.

We need concrete policies and protections.

The City of Sacramento must prohibit any city resources, including property or personnel,

from being utilized for any immigration enforcement.

Likewise, Sacramento must prohibit the direct and indirect sharing of data with federal immigration authorities.

The City of Sacramento must establish a rigorous process to ensure no collaboration or data is shared from the city with immigration and custom enforcement.

Additionally, we need real accountability for the police department and to ensure the Sacramento Police Department honors the Sacramento Sanctuary City policy, which prohibits its cooperation with ICE.

SAC PD must cease intimidating and citing protesters outside of the John Moss Federal Building.

L.R. Roberts.

Following L.R. Roberts is Gabrielle, Kayla, and then Skyler.

I'm L.R. Roberts. I live in Katie Maples District. I live in Oak Park.

My hubby Richard Perry and I were among the people who helped get Sanctuary City passed in 1985.

And we also fought the creation of ICE to begin with and the creation of Department of Homeland Security to begin with because that term has really bad history.

In fact, we've been organizing against the Border Patrol's rape and murder.

So we must stop ICE abuse now.

Gabriel then Kyla's young and Skyler Henry.

Gabriel.

Probably Gabriel is Kyla.

Gabriel.

Gabriel.

Thank you.

My name is Gabriel.

I'm a resident of District 6.

I know there's been a lot of talk, especially on the national level,

about the current authoritarian government in the United States,

as if that has not always been the case.

I want to emphasize the fact that I understand,

due to federalism and bloated bureaucracy of our government,

that there is limitations to what city council is able to do in these situations.

But I do think that it's important to emphasize the fact

that even though ICE might be the most obvious example of authoritarian overreach,

that we're currently dealing with,

the Sacramento Police Department

and the Sacramento County Sheriff

is a constant,

constant example

of an authoritarian overreach.

So I would like to know

what within the power

of our Sacramento City Council

we propose to do

about Sac PD's continued targeting

of activists

who are out there

trying to defend the community from the overreach of the federal government.

You might not have the power to stop every action the federal government takes in Sacramento,

but you do have the power to hold our police department accountable

when they consistently use their power to brutalize and oppress our communities.

While in Kyla is Skyler, then Katrina Marks, then Frankie.

Hello, my name is Kyla Zhang and I'm with Sacramento Loaves and Fishes and also as a resident who lives in South Sacramento, one of the most diverse parts of Sacramento.

know my neighbors who are mostly people of color, both housed and unhoused are most vulnerable

solely based on the color of their skin, the way that they speak and overall just the way

that they look. And let's be honest, ICE is they are doing more than just detaining people

with felonies or promoting safety. And the Trump administration and Homeland Security,

we have seen throughout time that there are no strangers to committing unconstitutional acts involving violence and injustice.

Before it's too late, I ask that the city council makes a positive and stronger decision to protect their constituents,

their constituents who essentially contribute to the beautiful foundation of diversity that Sacramento is known for.

And if there is fear that strengthening the sanctuary policy will result in federal funding cuts,

here's a reminder that our lives are worth more than federal cuts.

Thank you.

Skylar.

Hi, everyone.

I'm going to start by thanking Roger and acknowledging Roger as the only white guy

on the dais who actually showed up to listen to this community today who's out here advocating

for immigrants. I kind of I do want to harp on that a little bit because this is a moment you

hear the community out here really advocating for strong leadership and yet we're here with the

mayor and the council member who represents the district that the John Moss building is in who

apparently have more important places to be today than to sit here in a packed hall full of people

who are advocating for immigrant communities and listen to them.

I mean, to me, this really...

I mean, look, if there's a family emergency or anything, I'll eat crow,

but if it's anything other than that...

I mean, this is an insult to everybody in Sacramento

who gives a shit about stuff.

This is not a meeting in this.

Anyway, I also...

We're in this moment nationally, right?

Because for the last 10 years,

ever since Trumpism kind of took its root in the country

and started growing, Democratic leadership in this nation has sat around wringing their hands

and doing performative nonsense while this thing just continues to roll on and things get worse and worse.

And the Republicans continue to wipe their asses with our constitutional rights.

So I guess with that in mind, I'm really, really hoping,

and people are giving y'all plenty of ideas and actual tangible solutions to go with,

and I'm not going to go with any of those.

I'm just going to say, please take this seriously.

Please do not just be another tier of Democrats who sit here and say,

this is very bad and unacceptable, and somebody should be doing something about this.

That somebody is y'all.

And we're doing everything we can, right?

This is all we can do.

So it's up to y'all.

I hope you take it seriously.

Our next speaker is Katrina Marks, then Frankie, then Sarah Reed.

And people that are standing in the back, I need you to come sit down.

There's at least four seats over here.

There's at least four seats on this side, too.

Thank you.

And again, please come take your seat, or we do have to ask you to lead.

It's a fire marshal issue.

It's for security reasons.

Katrina?

Good afternoon.

My name is Dr. Katrina Marks.

I am a pediatrician here in Sacramento and a voting member of District 5.

I take care of kids and their families at all stages of life, and I directly see the impact that immigration enforcement activity has on our children.

That is why I am here to say unequivocally that the immigration and customs enforcement has no place in the health care of our children.

It doesn't take a pediatrician up here to explain to you why kids need their families.

What I can tell you is that from my job, I can only do my job when my patients and their families feel safe coming to see me.

And right now they don't.

Families are not coming to the doctor's office because they are afraid of ice waiting for them behind that knock on the door.

Now, when their kids are sick, they have to weigh the risk of bringing their child to the clinic

against the fear of someone coming out of the woodwork to separate them from their family.

When I took an oath to do no harm, I didn't specify to which kids I meant.

I meant don't do no harm to any of them.

but promises are not protection our patients and my community deserves more my patients deserve to

see me with fear of free of fear our neighbors deserve implemented policies that shield them

from the shared trauma that ice is enacting passing this resolution is a start and I pray

this council brings action to follow thank you for your time and your consideration I urge you

to vote yes on this matter. Thank you. Frankie. Frankie. My name is Frankie and I am a resident

of district four and as a lot of us have pointed out the mayor and Plucky Baum are not here.

Um, so as a doula and birth worker, it is my, I take it upon myself to advocate for my immigrant, uh, clients.

Um, as California's capital city is the capital of the most progressive state in the country,

as one of the first sanctuary cities in the entire country, and as America's farm to fork capital,

It is our duty to protect those in which this region's success is built upon.

Anything less is a failure.

It's a failure to the state.

It's a failure to the city.

It's a failure to our communities.

These actions, we're asking you to take action, real action.

As I've heard so many of my community members say, something with teeth.

Kaplan spoke earlier about keeping our streets safe.

How are we supposed to keep our streets safe when ice is around every corner?

They will come just like they came from Minnesota.

They will be here.

And for that, we need actions, bare minimum actions.

We need a clear action plan to implement city operations to protect our communities from ice.

This includes prohibiting the use of city-owned properties for ice enforcement activities,

prohibiting law enforcement from wearing masks,

protecting the rights of residents to peacefully assemble,

including stopping the immediate citation and intimidation of the protesters in front of the federal John Moss building

and a transparent and clear process on how we are going to protect our city's data from being in ICE's hands.

Do your job, fuck ICE, free Palestine, and we keep each other safe.

Our next speaker is Sarah Reed.

Following Sarah is Amanda Escalante, Andrea L, Kion, and Bob Barker.

Thank you, City Council.

In the last several weeks, it has become increasingly clear that the terror being spread across our country by federal ICE agents has nothing to do with immigration.

This is a race war manufactured to distract us from the class war as Trump and his billionaire buddies attempt to steal our democracy and establish the U.S. as a fascist state run by oligarchs.

Within our city, state and country, people of color are being unfairly targeted by masked, armed domestic terrorists, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

The very people who we have sworn to protect under the Constitution of the United States

are being dragged from their homes, snatched off the streets, and beaten by thugs who have

been given full immunity to do so.

As we are already witnessing, this will not stop with immigrants and people of color.

Just as the black community has been warning us for centuries, they are coming for all

of us.

They are already here.

I am begging you to see the terror in the Twin Cities as a warning and to do everything we can to fight back against ISIS occupation now.

Strengthening Sacramento's sanctuary status is the bare minimum.

It is the very least that we can do to help protect our neighbors and community members.

But I ask you, after this vote passes today, what actions will be put in place?

What policies will change so that our friends can once again feel safe going to the grocery store and sending their children to school?

Will local law enforcement protect and defend us against terrorism, or will they be complicit as they have been in the past?

The time for action is now.

We must stand together to defend freedom, democracy, and the immigrant population of the city and country,

which, by the way, unless you are 100% indigenous, every single one of us owes our existence as an American to immigration.

I am proud to live in Sacramento where diversity runs deep, and I implore you to do the right thing today

and take this small step in protecting your community members

and standing against discrimination and terrorism.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Amanda.

Amanda, then Andrea L., then Keon.

Good afternoon, Council.

Thank you for your dedication and listening to your community.

I hope none of the details in our experiences are drowned by the overwhelming roar to stop this injustice.

This call to action pleads you to acknowledge what rages rampant in our country.

ICE actively kills citizens and terrorizes neighborhoods unabashedly.

They move with fascist and falsely granted impunity, oversaturating their egos with a presumed and deadly omnipotence.

These are hateful people who enact horrific, abusive events that only history should stay witness to.

Will you honor your oath to serve your community, or will you stand aside?

These cruelties have commanded times before, so understand I'm beseeching not just your action,

but a commitment to a basic moral compass.

I do not need to convince you this is wrong.

It's unconstitutional.

Please bind these atrocities to the past

and be the public servant that offers people hope,

a safer future.

Abolish ICE.

And have our police actually protect its people.

Thank you.

Andrea L. and Keon.

Andrea L. then Keon.

Then Bob Barker.

Then Amanda.

Then Cassie Pryor.

Thank you to the city council members for being here.

I stand here today to show my support to strengthen the protection of our

immigrant neighbors. We are known as a sanctuary city and we must stick to it. As a daughter of

immigrants, the thought of my mom being at the hands of ice would break my heart. Immigrants

make this city, this country, great and they do not deserve to be thrown on the ground and taken

away. We all deserve, regardless of citizenship or the color of our skin, to feel safe anywhere

in our communities. I ask that you do everything in your power to keep the violence ICE is bringing

out of Sacramento. That way we are able to then put our energy, our collective energy,

to help our less fortunate neighbors in Minneapolis. I urge you to stand strong

and work together to be, to help us be the example that we need to be to those that pose

a threat to our democracy. Thank you.

Thank you.

Here we are again, making, talking about non-binding platforms and performative resolutions that

don't actually bind or require the city or its law enforcement to do anything, to change

anything about their practices, policies, or attitudes. It's not a subjective opinion to

say that the culture of Sacramento Police Department is fundamentally racist. It's

literally objective fact that has been confirmed in study after study that goes back to literally

2001. I've been saying that for years, noting it, the police review commission that you have,

that's supposed, that's subject matter experts that I used to serve on, has been telling you

that for years. And a majority of this council, unfortunately, has just ignored that.

This is more, like, what we're seeing right now from Minnesota to LA and beyond is not just an

immigration issue. This is an authoritarian issue. And the fact of the matter is, is that many of

these agents learned and are doing the very things that they're doing right now from law

enforcement like SAC PD. I don't believe for a minute that you're worried about being too

aggressive on this issue or slippery slopes. I think you're more worried about pissing off the

wealthy white bigots that are bankrolling your election campaign.

You're worried about pissing off the law enforcement associations like police officers association

that's bankrolled campaigns for a majority of this council by $100,000.

You're worried about pissing off the metro chamber that's given more than $114,000.

And I think you're worried about astroturf groups that all of these organizations funnel

their money to that has given this council no less than $275,000.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Bob Barker.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Kion, you've exceeded your speaking time.

Please stop speaking and take your seat.

Kion Bliss, by continuing to speak, you're disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting.

You're now in violation of Chapter 5 of the City Council Rules of Procedure.

If you do not stop, you'll be ordered to leave the meeting.

Do you understand this warning?

Kion, please return to your seat.

Absolutely.

Clerk, how many more public comments do we have?

I have quite a few more.

We're about a third of the way through.

So we probably have about 90 more public comments.

All right.

We have 90 more public comments.

We want to hear from everyone.

So it's two minutes each.

Okay?

Bob, then Amanda.

Yeah.

Hi.

We meet again, guys.

I think last time I was here, I said that it was only going to get more dangerous.

And clearly it has up until today, right?

I got a ticket for my First Amendment right.

That's besides the point.

First off, I'd like to say nobody is illegal and stole the land.

Secondly, I want to point out that people of color have felt the way that I'm about to express myself their whole lives.

Okay.

So when I go out, I've been out on the front lines at the John Moss every day, right?

And we've come to the conclusion that when we go out there, we may not make it home.

So I want you guys to look at me right now and remember my face for when I'm the next one, right?

Don't forget me because I've been here since October talking about this.

And I want to thank Maya Vang for getting the ball rolling.

Thank you.

Also, Telemontes, you look miserable.

You don't pay attention.

You don't pay attention.

You look miserable.

Don't be a therapist because your faces are awful.

And third off, it's like way past time you guys actually did something, right?

See, you just rolled your eyes.

You're so ridiculous.

You're embarrassing.

Just point of clarification.

Just keep the comments to the full council.

So, yeah.

Yeah, they don't believe in the First Amendment.

I got a ticket for that.

I'll probably get a ticket for this.

But it had to be said, because everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Do what's right.

This isn't about politics.

It's literally about humanity.

And you should probably get a new job.

Our next speaker is Amanda. Following Amanda is Cassie Pryor, Brother Carter, Cynthia Shalit, Vincent Troughton. Amanda?

I want to start by acknowledging Keith Porter Jr., who lost his life at the hands of an off-duty ICE agent, which investigation is not being transparent or clear.

and that happened in our very state.

I want to acknowledge Renee Good.

I want to acknowledge Alex Peretti, who lost their lives exercising their First Amendment right.

This is something that was predicted back in October by my husband,

who came up here and spoke to you guys and said,

within two to three months, these ICE agents will take the life of a United States citizen.

He said that to you.

We have been asking for you to implement things here in Sacramento

so that a casualty will not happen here.

We have been asking you to get involved in the police

who have been out harassing protesters.

Just the other day, a protester was jumped by a group of 12 self-proclaimed proud boys.

The police officers detained two, two of those who jumped him

and let them go the same day.

Meanwhile, the police officers here in Sacramento have detained multiple protesters.

Just this weekend, they detained and held a protester for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.

And I don't know about you, but all my children have ridden their bicycles on the frickin' sidewalk and never received a ticket.

Write me a ticket for letting my child at 6 ride her bike on the sidewalk if it's so illegal, if it's so dangerous.

I think that showing up to a protest with bats, with crowbars, and beating a man is

much more serious than riding a bicycle on the sidewalk.

We are past due to have a serious conversation with our police department.

We are years past due having serious conversations with our police department about their conduct.

Thank you.

Hey, we got it.

Everyone, everyone, I've been very flexible on the public comment, allowing more speaker time.

Please respect the council chambers.

We need to get through all the public commenters.

Everyone deserves two minutes.

Please be respectful of the council chambers.

Yes, this is my job to keep the meeting going. Thank you

And if you cannot keep decorum in the council chambers, we will pause the meeting

Hello

My name is Cassie prior

It's so intimidating being up here. I can't imagine how intimidating it is

Being a leader during this time. Um, so thank you for showing up today. Um

I

I am not particularly well-spoken, but it feels like such a privilege to be here and see how strong our community is and see how much people care.

We're showing up for each other, and I just appreciate that you're showing up for us, too, and fighting for our rights, fighting for our neighbors.

Immigration status is so made up, but what's happening here in this room is so real.

So thank you and please keep fighting for us.

And thank you for fighting for us.

Brother, then Cynthia.

Brother Carter.

Brother Carter, then Cynthia Shallott.

Good evening, council members.

I don't have to say who I am.

Most of you know who I am.

I'm Brother Carter. I'm with the Poor People's Campaign of Sacramento, but I'm also with the Poor People's Campaign for a national moral revival, and that goes across the nation.

I'm here today because we are in the fierce urgency of now.

We have love on the front line, and love on the front line is a dangerous way to live, because in the end, no one wins unless we have justice.

These folks out here, when you see them disrupt and speak out, some of the words that Dr. King said, when we remain silent to the things that matter, our lives begin to perish.

So excuse them for speaking up and speaking out.

Because at this time, there's a war outside that's going on.

And nobody's safe, not you or me.

And we have to continue to pay attention to what's going on because we live right now in chaos.

And what I want to say is I just want to leave you with a poem of something I found here 43 years ago,

working on the corner of 8th and L. There's a security guard, burned security guard.

Now it's a 770 building on that landmark. I found a 1909 double legal, $20 gold piece.

I found it January 13th of 1983.

Why is that so important?

Because it connects to our nation's beginning and its birthright.

So I'm going to start right here with the coin and the poem.

I found a coin, a coin of gold.

It had the year 1909 and it was full of hope.

This coin I found in its mystery.

This lady stood for our history and the birthright of our democracy.

This coin I found, I will always claim.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Cynthia.

This is the gold coin of liberty that holds an interest in justice for all.

By continuing to speak, you are disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting.

You are now in violation of Chapter 5 of the City Council Rules of Procedure.

If you do not stop, you will be ordered to leave the meeting.

Do you understand this warning?

Please take your seat.

Please take your seat.

Brother Carter, by continuing to speak, you're disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting.

You're in violation of Chapter 5 of the City Council Rules of Procedure.

If you do not stop, you'll be ordered to leave the meeting.

Do you understand this warning?

Brother Carter, please take your seat.

Cynthia, then shout.

Cynthia, then Vincent.

And sir, if you're with the media, you need to be over in the media section.

We can't kneel in the aisles.

Thank you.

Cynthia?

Hello, I'm Cynthia Shallott, and I want to thank you, Vice Mayor and City Council, for having this meeting.

I think you deserve some credit for bringing this issue forward.

I especially want to give a special shout-out for Mai Vang, who has really provided the energy to have you reconsider your policy.

I think like a lot of people here have said, it's great to have this policy, but we really need more teeth in it.

We need really some enforcement action.

So I don't know what that might be, but I really want to see some action of getting the ice off the streets.

So it's not going to be just an investigation.

It's probably going to have to be something like city police go and arrest an ice officer.

I don't know how they do that.

I want to say too that you're doing better than the other city councils in the county

and better than the board of supervisors elected officials.

So again, you are ahead of the game, but you can do better.

Okay, so I think that's it.

Thank you.

Do more.

Our next speaker is Vincent.

following Vincent is Melissa Atocha, then Alex Yeh, then Amanda Bartel.

Okay. I'm going to keep it high key. I don't give a shit about decorum, especially when there's

people out there getting shit on. I mean, you want me to be nice? You want me to give you kind words?

This guy walked in late as fuck. I got off of my class schedule an hour early just to be here. I

was here two hours early. He can't even show up 30 minutes early. That's fucking bullshit.

You like, I'm scared. And there's other people here who are mortified, terrified, horrified.

Their futures are being ripped from them. The future that everyone here was promised is gone.

And it will always be gone unless you people do something. And you know what? I need to bring this

to attention. You need to look people in the eyes when you tell them to leave, because that is so

disrespectful to say, oh, you need to follow the rules of the authority that punishes and

oppresses you. And you can't even do us the justice, do us the respect of looking us in the

eye. No, you look down. Are you scared? Okay. We don't call out people, die people, members of the

dais, please. Respect the entire mayor and council. Then respect me because I want to be able to paint

something like that in my lifetime. I don't want to have to sit here and fight. I'm a kid. Basically,

I'm still 20, but I'm still young.

I have so much to live in my life.

And I might have to waste it just so that I can at least give the hope

that maybe someone in the future can rise up against this injustice.

I want ICE out of my damn country.

I want ICE out of my whole city.

I want ICE.

We're gone.

And you need to hold people accountable for that.

Do you hear the anger in my voice?

Because it doesn't sound like you hear it out there.

And that's what I'm here for.

And that's what everyone's here for.

And you need to actually stand up for it.

It's been too long.

We can't just say, oh, please do this.

Oh, please do that.

You need action.

You need to sit.

You need to stand there and do something.

Hold people accountable.

Hold the police accountable.

When pigs walk around, they dirty the streets.

We got to clean it up.

And this is just a fair warning.

I'm not threatening you.

But if you don't take action, the people will.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Melissa, then Alex, then Amanda.

My name is Melissa Carolina Atochapauta.

I'm speaking today as a pharmacist who has previously served patients in the Sacramento City clinics,

as someone who works closely with medical advocacy organizations,

and as a volunteer who has over the last year has regularly accompanied asylum seekers to the John Moss Federal Building,

and as a formerly undocumented immigrant whose brother was deported two decades ago as a woman of color whose body remembers the fear

I felt for almost a decade when I was undocumented

I am scared, but I will never stand down. I

demand

I demand a council to strengthen our city sanctuary policies and enforce them

The resolution is a step in the right direction

But it's not nearly sufficient to protect both non-citizens and citizens from the intimidation abuse and the violence at the hands by ICE and DHS

practices. For my colleagues in healthcare, I'm hearing that patients of

color are now skipping critical medical appointments out of fear. This is not just

an immigration issue, this is a public health crisis. As a court observer, I

witnessed ICE undermine judicial authority. I've seen judges deny DHS

motions to dismiss cases, allowing asylum seekers to continue

pursuing legal relief, only for ICE to wait in the hallways and arrest them

anyways. This has happened even after I've personally confirmed with judges if

individuals were legally permitted to remain in proceedings. Asylum seekers are

being called into Icefield's office to be dehumanized, clothes removed, and

bodies inspected solely for having tattoos. And after the firing of four

immigration judges, hearings are being rescheduled for four months in the

future, leaving our non-citizens with several months wait to attempt to move

to attempt to move their cases forward, leaving them more vulnerable to

kidnappings and disappearance from ICE. I've also personally been verbally harassed by ICE

officers. This is not justice. This is simply fear-based governance. Our city must stand

firmly to protect all those. As I said, as a woman of color, I am scared, but I will never stand down

and I will keep protecting my community. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Alex.

Following Alex is Amanda. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Please take

your seat. Your time is complete. Please take your seat. Alex, Amanda. Alex, Amanda, then Safi.

All right. Hello. My name is Alex Yeh, and I'm a homeowner in District 4 with Phil Pluckybaum,

and I am disappointed to see that Mayor McCarty couldn't make it here today to listen to

his constituents. I'm a state scientist. I'm represented by CAPS, the California Association

professional scientists that also seeks to disband ICE. The City Council must pass more

than just a symbolic resolution affirming Sacramento's commitment to protected citizens.

Given what is happening in Minnesota and across the nation, we need you to ensure there's no

collaboration or data sharing with ICE. Sacramento must adapt strong policies,

disallowing use of city property by ICE. Sacramento must stop local PD from harassing

the protesters of the John Moss Federal Building. We cannot wait until even more of our neighbors

and community members are taken, we cannot comply in advance.

Amanda Saffey-Vinkishwar-Vikas.

Hi, my name is Amanda Bartel.

I'm an environmental scientist with the state of California,

represented by UAW, Local 1115.

I've exercised my right to free speech and protest in the Sacramento area

for the last 10 years for various issues because I understand very clearly that this is all connected.

As an environmental scientist, I understand that the climate crisis, white supremacy,

U.S. imperialism, and immigration are all connected.

Our federal government, with actors on both sides of the aisles,

have made it clear what they are willing to do to all of us as the climate crisis worsens.

Stories like the ones told in this room today mirror fears I've heard from my own colleagues,

some of whom work in the field in agricultural areas.

After multiple days of brutalization of local peaceful protesters last week here in Sacramento,

followed by yet another murder in Minnesota,

I made my way to the John Moss Federal Building on Saturday night.

What I witnessed was a group of peaceful protesters being antagonized by a collaboration

between local and federal enforcement agents.

I witnessed the practicing of dangerous kettling formations in addition to other intimidation tactics.

In Los Angeles, these same kettling tactics have repeatedly been utilized to trap, tear gas, and arrest peaceful protesters, injuring innocent bystanders in the process.

That is our future if you do not act.

At one point, it was unclear to those in attendance at the John Moss building whether tear gas would be deployed that night.

Agents were noted filming protesters.

Agents filming protesters.

This is a major concern because federal agents have made it known to peaceful observers and protesters all around the country their intent to classify and create databases to label protesters as domestic terrorists in order to justify murdering us.

These collaborations and aggressive tactics must end here now.

We are entitled to our rights.

Many of us participated in the George Floyd protests of 2020.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Safi, then Kishwer, then Alex Bink.

Hi, my name is Safi.

I'm coming to you as a resident of District 3.

I am a member of the Socialist Party.

I'm a small business owner who works with children and families.

And I'm also coming to you as the great-granddaughter of the former governor of California, Earl Warren.

I am writing to ask you to support strengthening our local protections against ICE actively targeting our community.

We live in a lawless era where ICE is terrorizing and murdering citizens and non-citizens alike without any repercussions or accountability.

ICE agents and their wannabe vigilante impersonators are on record tormenting people.

This abuse is done through the unwarranted use of pepper spray against non-combatant and lawful bystanders.

They are assaulted. They are beaten. They are shot at. And they're even killed.

Additionally, ICE agents and their unpatriotic impersonators are abducting and kidnapping people.

And this includes children.

People are being torn away from their families.

Women are being raped by ICE agents.

They say that they're trying to take the worst of the worst off the streets

when we know ICE agents are on record of being rapists.

They are monstrous.

ICE agents and their impersonators are bypassing all protections provided to citizens and non-citizens through our American Constitution.

They've demonstrated extreme carelessness and apathy when it comes to acting within the confines of the law.

ICE acts with extreme prejudice and aggression, yet they display grand cowardice and self-serving bias when they are challenged by law-abiding First Amendment auditors and protesters.

We have every right to record them, and they are cowardly for covering their faces, but for telling us we are cowardly for covering ours?

This is for our safety.

We love immigrants.

We hate ICE.

ICE didn't exist before 2003.

Please support the community.

Abolish ICE.

Thank you for your comments.

Kishworth and Alex.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Kishwar Vikas, and I have been an immigration attorney since 2014, and I'm tired.

My husband, my dog, myself, we live in District 6, and I'm speaking today in my personal capacity.

Since January of last year, I've seen Sacramento change overnight into a city of fear.

I've seen people afraid to show up to school, to church, to grocery stores, and of course, their court dates.

My clients have disappeared on their way to work, at ICE check-ins, at court, and from their homes.

Not a single day has gone by that I haven't gotten a phone call, a text, a Facebook message from a frightened sacramentan.

Many times that person is a U.S. citizen.

They're worried about being racially profiled.

They're worried about being abducted.

Now, in law school, they teach you to have respect for the law and trust that it will be fair.

Well, any trust our immigrant neighbors have had in the court system has disappeared, and rightly so.

But we still have a chance to do the right thing and send the right message.

We still have time to tell people like my mother and brother born in Pakistan who carry their U.S. passports with them, both nurses, that Sacramento is a city of immigrants, not fear.

We're a city that should be respecting the First Amendment, a city that should be supporting protesters' First Amendment rights against this brutal regime.

Not a city that's cooperating with ICE, the very agency abducting small children from their parents and shooting protesters in cold blood.

Let's be better, Sacramento. Let's strengthen our sanctuary law. Thank you.

The next speaker is Alex Bink.

Following Alex is Catherine Phillips,

A.V., Shianna Miners, Mark Valdez.

Hello, my name is Alex.

I'm a resident of District 4.

And I just wanted to say that I'd like to echo

the voices and recommendations of other comments,

but I want to go further and say something

that I think we all know in our hearts,

but some might be afraid to say aloud.

In recent weeks, we have seen armed and mass federal agents committing brazen and indiscriminate violence against members of the American public.

This violence is not only illegal and unconstitutional, but seems intentionally so.

Like many in our community, I'm left wondering if I or my loved ones will be next.

While I understand that unjust laws limit the actions the city can take to oppose federal tyranny,

the bare minimum is preventing local officials from interfering with the basic rights of sacramentans.

Most obviously, this includes our First Amendment rights to protest,

like many have mentioned at the John Moss Federal Building.

But human rights do not derive from the Constitution.

They are self-evident.

And among those rights is the right to self-defense.

Every person has the right to defend themselves,

no matter if our attackers wield federal power as a shield.

And I would like to urge the Council to instruct SAC PD

to stop interfering with this basic human right.

Our community is powerful and can protect itself, but we need local officers to stop collaborating, even indirectly, with this invading army.

If the police can't or won't stand with us, then at least stand aside.

Thank you.

I have 75 more speakers.

Catherine, then AV.

My name is Catherine Phillips.

I live in District 7 in Land Park.

and Roger it's nice to see you.

You know the term

a watershed moment

and that's what we're facing in this country.

You probably never thought

when you ran for city council

you'd be facing this kind of issue

and you know you have

budgets to worry about.

You have how are you going to get

constituents happy about whether or not

their road is paved, potholes, etc.

etc.

I think this is one moment when you have to put aside those very important but everyday issues and look inside yourself and determine whether you want to be on the right side of history.

My mother was an immigrant from Norway.

Her town, her house was occupied by Nazis in World War II.

My father was in the U.S. Army in the Pacific.

I grew up listening to stories about what happened in Norway, what happened in my mom's town.

I wasn't born in the U.S.

Everybody has some story if you dig and chip away enough.

There are lots of people in my neighborhood who are white, who are old, who have fear.

So I urge you to step back from the everyday and to do more than just a resolution,

to take those important steps that you need to take to do something firm to protect our neighbors.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is A.V., then Shana, then Mark.

Hello there.

District 7 Gurley here.

I'd like to start off with saying that I wouldn't be here if not for my dad immigrating to the U.S.

ICE is out here killing, detaining, torturing, God knows what, many just like him among many others.

They are leveraging centuries worth of misogyny, racism, ableism in order to commit unspeakable acts.

I have to ask, what are you doing as a representative to ensure public safety in the context of a hostile organization out here killing people?

What more do we need to yell at you for you to realize we're living under a hostile regime?

This symbolic action does absolutely nothing.

Cities such as LA have introduced ordinances taking action against ICE.

You have no excuse.

The bare minimum is a plan with actionable steps to protect all of us against the violent, fascistic overreach of ICE.

In addition, you owe us enough not to sell out our data to ICE.

Don't make ICE's job easier than it already is.

Our city is a sanctuary city policy.

So why are cops out here harassing citizens, protesting an unlawful organization that is literally shooting people dead in the streets?

Ordinary people like us are the only people keeping ICE from overrunning us all at this present time.

Cops should not be collaborating with ICE.

Are we not a democracy?

Isn't it your duty to represent the people?

We need you to do more than kneel with an assortment of disrespectfully appropriated

kending cloths.

Do something.

Do your damn job.

Abolish ICE.

Free Palestine.

Power to the people.

Shana?

Good afternoon.

My name is Shana.

I'm a resident in District 6, and I'm standing here today in solidarity with my, and caring for, my immigrant neighbors.

I stand opposed to the horrific actions of federal immigration enforcement.

ICE is clearly shown to not support safety or law or order.

Instead, they're spreading terror wherever they operate.

I urge you to take whatever actions you can as a city council to not cooperate with them,

and instead protect Sacramento's diverse communities, your constituents, filled with people living their normal lives.

I also ask you to act to protect everyone standing up in this moment

Exercising their right to free speech and assembly to speak out on what is just including at the John Moss Federal Building

I appreciate the sentiments of this platform update

I want to live in a Sacramento without my peaceful neighbors being kidnapped from their homes, schools, appointments and preschools

The truth is that while I appreciate the chance to speak with you today

I didn't particularly want to come here

I took the time off work.

I chose to spend my afternoon with you here

because I was thinking of the people who cannot be here

because they're scared to leave their homes.

They're already detained despite just living their peaceful lives

where they chose to make their homes

or one of the people who've already lost their actual lives from ICE

from either bullets or deplorable conditions.

I want people to not be harassed or executed in the street

for speaking out against this,

not be run over with cars and then arrested afterwards.

and I believe the safety of Sacramento's requires a plan for more tangible action.

Thank you for your time.

Our next speaker is Mark Valdez.

Following Mark is Allison Mesa-Jewski-Cortez, then Joe Hill.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Mark Valdez.

I'm a homeowner in District 7.

I'm trained as an air quality meteorologist.

Now I'm retired.

But the difference between me and the average farm worker is very small when it comes to the great ethnic cleansing of 2026.

And so what I've done over the last year is I've protested, particularly with the O'Brien brothers at Howland Arden.

And especially lately down at the John Moss building.

And from what I can see, from what I can tell, I think the Sacramento cops, Sacramento PD are unusually weak.

Two nights ago, people were milling outside the ICE offices because vans had left to collect more people to do more kidnapping.

And we didn't know what to do.

SAC PD was watching. They were closing the streets for the protesters, very courteous of them,

but it was also courteous to ICE so ICE could move in and out freely. We need some dump trucks

or something of the sort in front of the gates to bring this to an end. We need to stop this.

and so I am doing my part.

I would hope you would do your part too.

SAC PD needs to be working more closely with the protesters.

There needs to be courtesy between us and SAC PD

and it's time to basically bitch slap ICE

and take back control of the city of Sacramento.

Thank you.

Allison.

Thank you.

Allison.

Allison.

Hi, my name is Allison Machievski-Cortez.

I vote in District 4.

I am an unpaid accompaniment volunteer with Narcal Resist.

That means four times a week at least I am down at the John Moss Federal Building.

I have regular interaction with DHS, Border Patrol, ERO, and ICE agents and their staff.

Yeah, I'm at 650 Capitol Mall a lot.

I'm there with people who are going to their asylum hearings.

I'm there for ICE check-ins and also for USCIS citizenship process.

I want to give you a peek inside Sacramento's local ICE agents

because we see on the news people violating constitutional rights, human rights,

and we see them executing people in the street.

I want you to know that the ICE agents here in Sacramento are the same.

Their ICE staff at the field office, I have heard them make fun of people's names and accents.

Out loud, audibly, to the room, I have heard a DHS attorney do the same.

I've heard them degrade people for being immigrants, refuse to identify themselves to me.

person and I've heard them tell me they have my full name and that I am in their facial recognition

system. That's terrifying. It's not just Greg Bovino's crew and it's not outside of our city.

It's already here. It's not a couple bad apples. The whole barrel is rotten.

I urge you to support stronger sanctuary in our city. I urge you to not cooperate with them.

any of those agencies I mentioned.

I urge you not to data share with them whatsoever.

I urge you to end SAC PD citing and harassing me

and my colleagues who protest lawfully

at a place where we see so much ugliness.

Please protect me and protect my neighbors.

Our next speaker is Joe Hill.

Following Joe is Salen Corpus, Ethan Z,

Jarek R, Angelica Cambati.

Hello, City Council. My name is Joe.

And I've realized sitting here today, listening to all these wonderful speakers and concerned citizens,

that I may not be qualified in terms of process, in terms of policy and politics.

I may not be fully qualified and have the full understanding to say, you know,

everything that I need to say and fully know what I'm talking about.

But I do know about humanity. Everyone in here knows about humanity.

So what can we do to address this feeling that what's happening is going against our fundamental sense of humanity?

What do we do when they come to our city in mass as they have in Minneapolis?

What do we do as the institutions that we Sacramento residents staff and build are turned against us?

What do we do when these discussions that we're having become more than just discussions and news stories?

What do we do when it happens to one of us here?

what do we do when one of us is renee good keith porter alex freddy what what's going to happen

what are you guys going to do and i don't say this to accost you i say this genuinely what are we

going to do i think we should do everything possible to get ice out in every imaginable capacity

i think we should do everything possible to protect the people of sacramento regardless

of where they were born and to everyone sitting behind me standing behind me all the

wonderful people I've heard speak here today, I have one more thing to say. To paraphrase my

namesake, when you're done morning, organize. Thank you.

Salen.

See Salen Corpus. Nope, I don't see movement. Ethan Z.

Then Jarek R. Good afternoon, Sacramento City Council.

I am Ethan with Ubinay Filipino and I am a current resident of District 1.

I urge you all to not only be in support of Item 14 to strengthen local protections against ICE activity

that inhumanely targets our city's most vulnerable communities,

but to also affirm the ways in which you will keep these communities and our city safe.

The term sanctuary city isn't just a term that can be thrown around in hopes to instill safety and security.

It holds meaning and value to an entire population of people who are most impacted

by the local policies that you, the Sacramento City Council, vote on.

to really ensure the safety and security of the most essential workers who build, feed, and sustain Sacramento.

We need in-depth and concrete policies and protections.

It needs to be continuously affirmed that ISN DHS cannot operate on public spaces and properties.

It needs to be affirmed that data will not be shared to ISN DHS who are actively looking to inflict harm and violence to our people.

It needs to be affirmed that Sacramento won't cooperate and Sacramento will fight back.

If you truly care for the people you serve, these protections will not only be put in place, but will be ongoing.

You'll work with and for the people, ensuring that our voices are heard, our demands are met, and our safety is the utmost priority.

Please, please, please support Item 14 and stand with immigrant communities and their allies.

Salamat and thank you.

Hello, my name is Jerick and I am a resident of Lisa Kaplan's District 1 and I'm here with

Unite Filipino, a program that works with and for Filipino immigrants, workers, tenants,

and youth here in Sacramento and I am supportive item 14. Sacramento is a sanctuary city and

our immigrant community continuously sustain, feed, and build Sacramento. However, how is

Sacramento a sanctuary city when our American community live in fear of going

to work, dropping off their kids to school, and even staying at home because

they might be profiled by the same people and system who reinforces these

racist and anti-American practices. There must be a change now to protect our

immigrant communities and it should be proactive and ongoing, not during moments

of crisis and I urge you to expand this city's platform of sanctuary city

policies which includes tangible implementation that are transparent

and accountable and to no collaboration and no data sharing with the eyes and

DHS and an overall protection for immigrant communities here in Sacramento.

This means ice out of our neighborhoods,

out of our supermarket and ice out of our communities and ice out of the United

States in general. Thank you.

I don't believe Ethan here.

My name is Angelica Cabandi and I'm the executive director of Ognay

Filipino and I'm a district five residents.

I'm here to urge you to support expanding the city of Sacramento sanctuary policies and to

strengthen our local protection against ICE activity targeting our community. Immigrant

protection should be proactive and ongoing, not reactive during moments of crisis. It is shameful

and unacceptable that this policy has not been updated even before all this chaos and trauma.

Saying we are a sanctuary city is not enough.

What does that even mean when we have observers being attacked and the mayor is silent on it?

When we get families checking in and we don't know if they will be coming out,

even though they are following the law.

When residents are walking in parks and are being harassed and detained,

if they can't prove their status, which we all know does not matter anymore.

Speak through actions.

It's not enough stating you support the safety of our immigrant population.

Public statements of support must be matched by concrete policies and protection.

We need to use and exercise multiple strategies to protect all of us, especially our immigrant and refugee communities.

We have neighbors coordinating efforts in the blocks to vigils and rallies to observers to conducting New Year's Rights workshop to passing out red cards to now with you elected officials in putting real muscle to these existing policies.

This resolution vote is just the first step.

We need ongoing discussion, enforcement, and transparency, including outreach in language to all our residents.

Thank you and we hope you step up as we are already stepping up to this moment.

I don't believe Ethan Z is here.

Ray Castillo, Gao Iyeng, Emma, Morgan Asher, Beatrice, Alexandria Estrella.

Is Ray here?

I don't see Ray. Gao. Gao Iyeng. Thank you. And then Emma and Morgan.

Hi, my name is Emma. I'm a pediatric occupational therapist and a professor

in a doctorate of occupational therapy program in the area.

You all already know what I'm here to support.

I have so many students weighed down by what is going on

that they cannot do their work.

I have clients and families who are immigrants,

who are immigrants, who are working on their statuses

and have worked to be active members of the community

and worked to build their entire lives from scratch.

They're finally getting support for their kids.

They're seeing their kids make progress.

And now I have them coming to me crying in fear about coming to their sessions and fear about losing their status and fear about getting unfairly treated by ICE, by police, all of these things that are going on.

We need protective, strong, legally binding policies to put in place to protect our families preventatively.

We can't be reacting anymore.

I live in District 4.

but I'm from just outside of Chicago,

and there is still a semblance of trust in the police in the town that I'm from

because people call the police to help get rid of ICE

because of their status as a sanctuary city.

In occupational therapy, we use the term called occupational deprivation,

which means that people are unable to participate in their daily occupations,

the things they need to, want to, and have to do because of fear, stress, racial profiling,

and we're seeing that happen time and time again.

There was a study in 2013 saying that immigrants experience this at higher levels, which leads to worse mental health, more negative well-being.

And it has only gotten worse in this state that we're in today.

I need you to make some action.

I hear talk.

I see you all standing up at marches and talking, and we need action.

Please help our community.

Help these people that are standing up for you.

We need it yesterday.

Is Ms. Yang with Cal Defense here?

Okay, thank you.

Yes, please.

And then Morgan, then Beatrice.

Good afternoon, members of the Sacramento City Council.

Thank you to Councilmember Vang, Guerra, and Telemontes for your leadership on this initiative.

I am Go'ia Yang, director of Cal Defense, a community-driven initiative.

established to protect Southeast Asian refugees and immigrant families from being detained

and deported by advancing pardon campaigns and also working with them on other post-conviction

relief efforts. I work with a population that is oftentimes the first ones to be thrown

under the bus because of their old criminal records. They served their time, turned their

lives around and still they are denied their due process. I grew up in District 2, lived

a long time in District 1 and currently reside in District 7. I stand before you to urge

you to develop and implement a strong coordinated plan to protect the safety of all immigrant

and refugee communities here in Sacramento and to uphold basic constitutional rights.

We must ensure that all Sacramentals, all Sacramentans are able to live in their homes peacefully.

That is the most basic is just to be able to live in their own homes peacefully,

to be able to go to school, hospitals, work, their court hearings, their check-ins,

and access other public services without fear of being taken.

This plan must also include the role of Sacramento Police Department,

which is here to protect us and not be in cahoots with ICE or Border Patrol.

nor become only an observer or a bystander

when ICE is attacking the community.

I urge you all to go beyond a resolution

and invest funding in a coordinated response

that will protect immigrant and refugee communities

and all of Sacramento's.

Thank you for your time.

Hi there, my name is Morgan Asher

and I wrote this statement in advance

and I'm just gonna toss it out

because it feels like I have, I feel like maybe talking off the cuff would be a little bit more impactful and helpful.

Specifically because I want to talk to the audience right now.

I can't really face you guys, but like, hi.

And I think, you know, I want you to think about what your council members are going to feel like when they go home tonight.

And are they going to be like super fired up and motivated and like, yeah, you know what, we want to change this because there's so much injustice happening.

or are they going to go home and be like, damn, so many people called me a jerk today.

Like, I don't want to go actually make a change, right?

So, like, if you're planning on doing that, I would urge you to come up here and be courteous

so that we can actually focus on making the changes that we need to make.

I am here on behalf of another community member who prefers to remain anonymous

because he fears retaliation.

But the story I wanted to share is that this week he was driving in Sacramento and he was he started being followed by an unmarked van.

He looked back and saw that the Sacramento County Sheriff was driving said unmarked van and was escorting like five agents.

and this is like really concerning to me because like this is local stuff. This is like a local

vehicle. This is like gas that's local, right? Like these are like, you know, obviously you guys

can't abolish ICE. I know that's not a reasonable ask, but we can do what we can. I want us to think

about like what can we do? You know, we're going to say, oh, they can't use public property. That's

awesome can we say they can't use the vehicles the gas they can't use um thank you for your

comments your time is complete our next speaker is Beatrice then Alexandria

hello city council members my name is Beatrice um Hernandez and I'm a resident of district three

um and I'm sharing today's remarks as a constituent but also on behalf of the

California Immigrant Policy Center, CIPC.

Sacramento was the first city my family and I settled when we came to this country.

Del Paso Heights Elementary School is where I made my first friends.

Norwood Middle School is where I learned English.

And Grant High School prepared me to go to college.

This city represents the city where I built a new life and found community.

That is why it is deeply painful to see Sacramento for sure in protecting the very people who call it home.

I am fully undocumented.

And over the past years, I have become more involved locally.

I have repeatedly been told directly or indirectly that immigrant rights work in the city is carried only by a few council members.

And while I appreciate those who have stepped up, immigrant justice cannot be the responsibility of only two council members here, especially not right now.

We are witnessing eyes to taint people at our federal courthouse.

We're seeing members peacefully protesting and being cited, harassed, or injured.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment.

A sanctuary city is not defined by a resolution alone.

Sanctuary requires accountability and clear boundaries between city resources and federal immigration enforcement.

The immigration platform before you is a step, but it must go further.

The demands laid out in the ICE accountability Sacramento City letter are not extreme.

They are necessary to protect public safety and community trust.

So I urge every single one of you today to take leadership and treat immigration protection as a shared responsibility

and to adopt an immigration platform that truly reflects the commitment in action.

So with that, I really look forward to seeing a timeline and update as to when that's going to be updated.

Thank you so much.

our next speaker is Beatrice following Beatrice is Alexandria Estrella Jane Church on Nicodemo

Bustamante Theodora Forsterberg good afternoon everyone my name is Alexandra Estrella I am a

Sacramento resident and I work for the California Immigrant Policy Center I'm here because what is

happening in our city is deeply harmful and unacceptable we have seen peaceful protesters

outside of the John Moss Federal Courthouse met with violence, arrests, and citations for minor

infractions. And more recently, we have seen a protester struck by a DHS vehicle and detained

overnight under the threat of federal charges. I want to be clear. These actions are not about

safety. They are about intimidation, and they leave our community hurt, shaken, and afraid to

exist in public spaces. I am also speaking as someone who is a special immigrant juvenile

status recipients. I came to this country seeking safety after experiencing harm as a child.

When federal agents mask themselves, detain residents in public, and escalates peaceful

activity into violence, it re-traumatizes people who already carry deep fear and past trauma. No

city that claims to be a sanctuary should allow that to happen. What makes this even more troubling

is that Sacramento is not without options. Counties like Alameda, Santa Clara, and LA have already

taken concrete steps to limit cooperation with DHS in order to protect community members while

maintaining public safety. These are proven models and they show that stronger protections are both

possible and effective. Sanctuary means more than its resolution. The city must actively protect the

right to peacefully assemble and document interactions, prohibit the use of city property

for federal enforcement operations and ensure these protections are enforced in practice.

Sacramento has a right to choose dignity over fear.

This council has the authority to act.

The choice before you is whether to use it to protect your constituents.

I urge you to strengthen our city sanctuary city policy.

Thank you.

Is Beatrice here?

Beatrice?

Thank you.

Jane Nicodemo?

Hi, my name is Jane Churchon. I live in District 5. I'm a native Sacramentan. My children were both born and raised in Sacramento. They went away to college and they returned to Sacramento. They're both politically active and they both live in the city and are raising their children in the city.

I'm a neonatal ICU nurse in this community and many of my patients that

probably 75% of my patients are born to immigrant parents I've never asked any

parent their immigrant status that would be against my professional ethics and

there's no reason to do so but over the last year I've had more and more parents

ask me this weird question whether I know if there's a form that they can fill

out to give to somebody that allows them to take custody of their newborn baby so that if they are

kidnapped when the mother is sent home that the baby will not be orphaned and adopted by a stranger.

This is heartbreaking. I've never ever had to deal with something like that before in my

30 plus years as a nurse. These are parents asking whether they can get signed papers to give away

their newborn baby. No one asked for that. ICE just murdered a nurse. Honestly, that's terrible.

That's a sister or a brother in this case, but that's the least of it.

ICE is murdering all kinds of people.

Keith Porter, Silvera Villegos Gallegos, Jaime Alanis Garcia, Kai Ying Wang.

My union, CNA, NNU, has demanded nationally the abolishment of ICE.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Nicodemo, then Theodora.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Please take your seat. Our next speaker is Nico Dimo and Theodora.

Hi everyone. My fellow Sacramentans, City Council members, my name is Nico Bustamante and I'm a resident of Sacramento, born and raised in California.

specifically I currently reside in District 4.

The system is working exactly how it was intended.

Did we forget we inspired Nazi Germany?

They were inspired by the African slave trade and Southern Jim Crow.

Can I ask why you weren't pressuring Governor Nusance

to get ICE the fuck out of Sacramento?

The National Guard.

What happened with that?

Instead, you're allowing your citizens like you always have

to be publicly kidnapped, beaten, tortured, and murdered.

We all know who has paved the way and who will continue to pave it and keep it clean,

which is us, the people.

We pay your salary, your staff, your vacations.

It's taxpayer money, what we're standing in, what you're using.

It's all taxpayer money.

We all have blood on our hands for letting this insane white supremacist pedophilic behavior

of what is considered the U.S. government transpire for too long.

A lot of us don't trust any of you or even expect you to do your jobs or say what you're going to do.

We hope you will.

Why don't you make the right choices for the people and not just for your white-backed comfort?

All power to the people.

Our next speaker is Theodora, then Teresa Chacon, then Ronda Rios Kravitz.

Theodora?

Hi, counsel. My name is Theodora Furstenberg, and I am in your district, Ms. Maple.

And I'm also here representing my fellow scientist colleagues who work for federal agencies at 650 Capitol Mall.

I say my formal colleagues because I was actually forced to resign after ICE specifically targeted me for having the audacity to ask to go past their drunken frat boy chat to use the elevator that I use every day to go to work.

So the people who still work there are still dealing with this on a daily basis.

And the thing I did there was important work.

I'm an archaeologist and anthropologist who works with tribes in order to help them protect their heritage resources

and their ancestral burials when we have federal actions about fish passage.

And I don't get to do that anymore.

And the reason that I'm symbolically against this resolution is because if I gave the tribes a half measure

about protecting their resources, they'd give it back.

and I would get excoriated like a lot of you are getting today

and have to listen to it and it sucks.

And most importantly, I would lose the trust of the tribe

and I would be the person there who lost the trust

of the people that I was there to serve

because I'm a public servant.

And the people in our community are the police.

Those are our community members too.

We need to trust them.

We need to be able to trust that the constituents will be able to actually hold people accountable and make sure that we aren't suffering at the hands of the people who are there getting paid to protect and serve us.

We all know they don't, but come on, man.

We want a serious-backed resolution that's more concrete, like people have said.

Thank you so much.

Our next speaker is Therese Kavkong.

Terese Cachon and Rhonda Rios Kravitz and Pat Ferris.

Constituent of the Honorable Roger Dickinson, who's actually knocked on my door, rung the bell a couple times.

Deeds, not words.

My late mother first learned those words from her Catholic priest mentor and modeled peace and social justice deeds all her life in San Diego.

Give the sanctuary city policy teeth.

I acknowledge my white privilege while now we all are experiencing what people of color and even class or documentation status have been subjected to their whole lives.

I'm the wife of a 20-year Air Force veteran and 20-year Army Corps of Engineers retiree who's been pulled over in Sacramento for driving while black.

Will his Air Force ID or any documentation be believed and respected by rogue federal agents?

Deeds and teeth, not words.

Si se puede.

Rhonda?

My name is Rhonda Rios-Kravitz.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Members, or I should say Vice Mayor and Council Members.

I am here to urge you to elevate this resolution to a binding sanctuary city ordinance that truly protects our community.

Today, the need for this action is urgent.

Federal immigration enforcement has escalated far beyond what any of us should accept.

Mass raids are terrorizing neighborhoods, disrupting workplaces, and tearing families apart.

We are watching the erosion of any pretense that this country maintains a single equitable system of justice.

Sacramento must not stand by while militarized federal forces operate in our city without accountability.

This resolution, which should be an ordinance, must reinforce local control of policing and safeguard civil liberties.

This means ensuring that Sacramento law enforcement does not collaborate with ICE or Border Patrol except we're absolutely required by law.

It means protecting residents' privacy, their right to protest, their due process rights, and their freedom from unlawful detention and excessive force.

We also need clear direction for how the city responds when federal agents overstep.

This resolution, which should be an ordinance, should require the city attorney to take legal action when federal officers use excessive force against protesters or residents and to pursue legislative advocacy that defends our community's rights.

Another critical piece is the protection of free speech around federal buildings.

As a volunteer with NorCal Resist, I was ordered off a public sidewalk outside the John Moss building,

right next to my sister's cafe, while offering information to people attending court or ice check-ins.

I was told...

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Pat Ferris. I have 53 more speakers.

Pat Ferris, Stephen Dilbert, Taylor Cummings, Rishi Kosharami, Joe P, Van H, Marbea Sala, Pat, I don't see Pat, Stephen Dilbert, I don't see Stephen, Taylor Cummings, thank you, after Taylor is Rishi, then Joe P, then Van H, then Marbea Sala.

Who I am is not important, but what I have to say is it's clear to all of us that the draft dodging felon who currently occupies the White House is not using ICE to address any legitimate concerns of immigration.

What's going on here is a campaign of ethnic cleansing and silencing political dissent.

This violent, unconstitutional, and un-American campaign has already claimed the lives of several of these citizens and immigrants here and will continue to claim more.

it's laughable that the mayor is afraid of putting a target on our back as if our position

as the capital city of the most populous liberal state in the nation as well as being one of the

most diverse cities in america hasn't already put that target on it we must be prepared for what is

happening in minneapolis to happen here looking behind me you can see the people here today and

who have been protesting in the streets in front of the john moss building and other locations

are prepared, but what must be answered today is are any of you prepared?

Failing to maintain Sacramento's status as a sanctuary city or failing to force Sacramento

Police Department to adhere to that status is an invitation to ICE to declare open season

on our community and its residents. It would endanger the lives of every person of color here

and threaten the freedom of speech and assembly of us all.

Strongly worded letters, meaningless motions, and empty promises

stopped being useful to us when Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016.

They will not protect this community.

There is nothing that a strongly worded letter can do when a bullet is aimed at a citizen.

Your duty to uphold the Constitution and defend your constituents has never been greater.

the people of Sacramento have risen to the occasion in this historic hour and I am begging

all of you to do the same or at least resign so someone else can take your place and do it

our next speaker is Rishi I have 50 more speakers hi my name is Rishi and I live in district 4

I think all the speakers before me have made it abundantly clear that this resolution isn't enough.

People are being traumatized for the crime of having an accent.

Their dignity is being systemically violated.

They are being abducted and executed behind closed doors and in the streets.

Here's what I would like the city to commit to.

Plans in place to protect city data from ICE.

Outreach for the unhoused and undocumented.

Assured safety as immigrants seeking citizenship attend their court appointments.

Accountability for any SAC PD officers who participate in targeting and arresting peaceful protesters outside of the John Moss buildings.

Free speech zones. Signs distributed to local businesses and residents telling ICE that they are not welcome without a warrant on private property.

Know your rights pamphlets mailed to every residence and business.

No city property or resources being used in ICE operations.

Law enforcement officers enforcing the California law that bans ICE agents from wearing masks while they brutalize our community members.

Plans in place for the day that's coming when ICE agents enter our children's schools, target our vulnerable, and execute our activists.

Human dignity and liberation affirmed on every level.

You, our representatives, are also our community members.

You may have friends, neighbors, loved ones impacted by ICE.

I hope you are feeling the same grief, terror, and anger that we are.

Please use the power that we have granted you to help us protect each other while we let you have it.

Shout out to Mai Vang and Katie Maple.

Thank you for the attention and respect you've showed us on this very long afternoon.

Next speaker is Joe.

Next speaker is Joe.

Joe P.

Then Van H.

Then Marbella Sala.

Thank you, Council, for listening. It is my supreme displeasure to be here.

It doesn't matter who I am. I live in District 4. I live right across from the John Moss Federal

Building. I've seen with my own eyes the masked men in ballistic vests walking around with weapons

they clearly don't know how to handle safely. I have seen with my own eyes unmarked vans that go

out empty and come back full, full of people who are kept like animals in a fucking basement.

I've seen with my own eyes the dedication

the courage, the determination

the perseverance and love of the people

who protest against these injustices

outside the gates at 650 Capital Mall

every fucking day

sometimes it's just a couple people

sometimes I can't get down the street because it's so packed

sometimes it's hard to have a conversation

with my wife or go to sleep

because of the chanting

I don't mind, I fucking love it

I'm so proud of them

I'm so proud of everyone in this room

I'm proud of the people of Sacramento who are standing up and rising against this authoritarian tide.

I believe that our city as a population will rise to the challenges of this dark and uncertain time.

I believe we'll resist this lawless violence.

I believe we'll take care of each other.

And we're asking you to rise with us.

Going forward, though I have my doubts, I hope to see the city as an organization,

standing behind the city as a people.

Sacramento and its law enforcement must stand with the city at every opportunity,

support measures to affirm, strengthen our constitutional rights,

all of them, and at every opportunity stand to oppose those who would deprive us of those rights.

We are scared. We are appealing to you to stand up for us. But whether or not you stand up for us,

we will stand up for ourselves. We are scared, but we're not going to back down. And if you will

not stand with us, we need you to please stand aside. Stand aside and let us protect our neighbors,

our families, our friends, and our communities. We are not cowards, and we will not let our way

of life be destroyed without a fight. Fight with us. Thank you.

Good afternoon. My name is Van Harding and I live in District 4. I grew up in Massachusetts and

moved to Sacramento four years ago. I love living here. My life is so much better for the family I've

found here and the diversity of the city and our immigrant communities. An aim of our current

federal regime is to make us feel confused and overwhelmed and give up our hope. The organization

of our community and our presence here today is one of the many reasons my hope is sustained.

I just won't hesitate as they bring violence and chaos to our community. Now is not the time to

worry about doing too little. We don't need to wait until we see scenes in Sacramento like we've

been seeing in Minneapolis. The time to prepare is right now. The cost of failing to meet the moment

is far greater than the effort that it will require. It's our responsibility to take the

measures necessary to keep us safe. The resolution is a nice step and it states our city's values

well but it's meaningless without action to follow. As many have advocated for we need to develop and

implement policies and procedures to prevent city resources from being used to aid and abet ICE

and to protect the constitutional rights of our community members to oppose their unlawful and

unjust operations. Our community has made its values clear. It's necessary that our elected

leadership take action to uphold them. Thank you. Marbella Sala, then Rachel See, then Elena

Varner then Juliet Forbes. Good afternoon I'm Arbella Sala I'm the president of

Garland Northgate Neighborhood Association I live in District 3 I'm a

Chicana my family came here as undocumented when I was five years old

I'm now a US citizen my husband I've been married to for over 30 years he

He still has his green card, and I worry about him every time he leaves the home because he is brown and he has an accent.

Like me, they might not arrest me because they'll think I'm white.

But him, they will, and they'll ask later.

They'll arrest him, and they'll ask later, what's your status?

Because they don't care about the law.

So the know your rights, the little red cards, my husband told me early on that ICE immigration, they don't give a shit about the law.

They're going to do whatever they want to do.

And so I worry that he is an opinionated, articulate man, and they will beat him if he challenges them.

And I asked a police officer at one of our meetings, what will you do if someone is being beat by ICE in front of your eyes?

Or we call 911.

What will you do?

And he said, we can't do a thing.

So this resolution needs to change and it needs to be made a law and ordinance.

And I'm hoping that Chief Lester is listening, that she can tell and there can be a discussion about the police officers and changing their attitude.

In the meantime, while you're trying to redraft this resolution, which I think it's great and I appreciate, it's a good first start.

And I also want to say thank you to Council Member Talamantes, Council Member Guerra, and Vang for taking this up and bringing this forward.

And sitting through, I know there's a lot of people that are passionate and angry, but you're not our enemies.

Our enemy is the federal government and the current president that we have.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Rachel C.

Rachel C.

I don't see movement.

Elena Varner.

Following Elena is Juliet Forbes.

Laura Corlin Haig.

Elena Varner, Ph.D., Senior Supervisory Scientist,

working in Sacramento for the state of California.

I'm here today as a public servant.

As fellow public servants, I urge you to protect the community you serve.

Take the horrors happening in Minnesota as a warning.

This is what's coming.

This will happen in Sacramento soon and in many core ways is already here.

Now is the time to heed Minnesota's warning and take steps to reduce the harm.

Sacramento needs stronger sanctuary ordinances.

What we are calling for collectively here today are incredibly basic protections.

Public city lands cannot be where ICE inflicts terror on our own community.

This is our community's land, and it is up to us to protect it and each other.

Protect the right to peacefully assemble and protest.

This is the First Amendment right.

It's the first one for a reason.

adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights

specifically to protect against federal overreach.

In 1791, the rationale was that peaceful, lawful assembly

is fundamental to democratic accountability.

Again, the right to assemble and peacefully protest

is fundamental to democratic accountability.

It is as true now as it was then.

protesting is American from ending civil slavery to women's rights, civil rights to workers rights.

Protesting help Americans win a minimum wage, child labor laws, and the 40-hour work week.

Today is the day to protect our First Amendment right.

I implore the City Council to protect the mechanism that protects democracy.

It is a shame that this city council is coming forward to propose, that the community is coming forward to propose these.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Juliet and Laura.

Hello, good afternoon. My name is Juliet. I'm a licensed clinical social worker in the state of California.

I did not prepare anything. I'll be honest, I'm exhausted. I work in an emergency room.

I work as a clinical social worker full-time.

I'm exhausted.

My colleagues in the emergency room are exhausted.

I know our public servants are also exhausted,

and it's also not the time to give up on us.

I've heard some people say, right, we need to come with respect.

We need to come with a certain approach.

I understand that I hear that.

I've also been told to go F myself, my clients, and I still serve them,

and I still serve them within my ethics and my responsibility,

and I do what I'm supposed to do.

So I ask that as much as some of this may feel as an attack, right,

and you might go home feeling frustrated and feeling I'm in this position for a reason,

I implore you to think about why you are in this position.

Why did you take these roles?

Why did you run for office?

Why did you spend hours and hours and hours and money and campaigning to sit in these spots?

Because we are working hard.

The people are working hard.

We are taking time off, working nights in the emergency room,

and then coming here on our days off to spend time to talk for our neighbors

who cannot talk for themselves.

So please, listen to us, pay attention, and don't be inactive.

You have these spots for a reason, and you need to use them

because we are counting on you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Laura.

Following Laura is Ann Deep.

Angela Hassel.

Hi, my name is Laura, and I'm a voter in District 6.

My husband is an immigrant and after years of waiting he finally became a citizen.

I have to say entering the John Moss building was terrifying.

I can only imagine how my husband and other immigrants feel entering it.

Since then I have protested ICE outside the Moss building in spite of being scared for my safety and the safety of my husband.

My fear of ICE and SAC PD affects my family's daily life.

My family and neighbors should not have to live this way.

I am here to ask that the SAC PD honors the Sacramento Sanctuary City Policy,

which prohibits its cooperation with ICE in carrying out enforcement activities in Sacramento.

I also ask the city to ensure no collaboration or data is shared from the city with ICE.

Lastly, I ask you to implement these changes as quickly as possible, as things are only getting worse.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Ian Deep, then Angela Hassel, then Maria Christina Mora, then Eric Sanchez.

Hello, council members.

My name is Anne Deep.

I'm a resident of District 4, and I'm here to ask you to expand the city's sanctuary policies

and to strengthen our local protections against ICE activity.

First and foremost, the city of refuge must mean safety in everyday life,

not just statements, not just resolutions, but real implemented policies with outcome and accountability.

A strengthened policy ensures misuse and abuse of power does not occur against our neighbors

and ensures that violence remains off our streets and protects the most vulnerable and marginalized of our community.

And secondly, if that doesn't appeal to your humanity, I hope this does.

It's good business.

Immigrants are essential workers who build, feed, and sustain Sacramento.

Take it from me, I'm one.

And I'm so proud to call California my home and I'm so proud to serve her people and the state.

But when people are scared, they do not go to school.

They do not go to work. They do not leave their homes.

And the livelihoods of both the individuals and businesses are impacted,

weakening our local economy and the vibrancy of our neighborhoods.

And to be perfectly clear, one's labor is not prerequisite to safety and dignity.

So lastly, and this is for my representative, Plagamom,

I read in your profile that you really enjoy exploring our neighborhoods' fine eateries.

But these fine foods would not be possible without the incredible immigrants

who make up a bulk of our food service, restaurant, and the agricultural industries that supply it.

And so at a minimum, ICE's unchecked activities harms our local economies.

At worst, their unchecked violence harms our neighbors directly.

So your support in strengthening the city's policies will ensure that our communities are safe for all.

People will feel safe going to work, going to school, or even just going out and having a nice meal with their friends.

So I urge you all, for our Sacramento community, for the farm-to-four capital,

for the many fine businesses in the district that you represent,

Please stand up for the public safety by strengthening this proposal and giving it teeth and accountability the way that so many folks before me have asked for.

So thank you.

Angela Hassel.

Following Angela's Maria Christina Mora and Eric Sanchez.

Good afternoon.

My name is Angela Hassel.

I'm the director of Sacramento Loaves and Fishes.

As an organization, we're in District 4 and we provide survival services primarily to our homeless neighbors, but also to anybody else who needs us.

Everything I have to say today, you've already heard from a lot of the inspiring folks that came before me, but also as a former educator, I know that repetition is a powerful tool in drilling information into our heads, so I'm going to keep going.

Just like with issues and policies around homelessness, the status quo is not enough for our loved ones who are scared, terrified, and under attack.

We're in a historical moment when real decisive action with follow through matters and sends

a message that Sacramento is a city willing to stand up and say no to federal intimidation.

This council has a chance to send that message, to send the message that Sacramento will protect

our immigrant friends and step in before federal ICE agents come for them.

This council can also protect folks exercising their right to free speech and at the very

least protect folks when they're on city owned property. This is a time that we're living

in when the world is watching and words, promises, intentions, symbolic gestures are not enough.

We urge you to step up in your role as local leadership and put concrete active protections

and accountability measures in place so our immigrant neighbors can really have the safety

promised to them by living in a city of refuge. Accountability for ICE agents and other local

law enforcement officers who daily inflict violence and fear on our communities is severely

lacking. You have a chance to start turning that tide in Sacramento, and you've heard a lot of that

today. And so I urge you to listen and hear the collective voice of the communities that you all

serve. And while you're at it, please stop law enforcement from terrorizing our unhoused neighbors

with sweeps. Thank you.

is maria christina mora here maria christina mora you don't see maria eric sanchez and henry

gordon then lena knowlton um eric sanchez with food not bombs and uh it's kind of funny to try

to call this a sanctuary city when you literally have people like myself afraid to go out of their

house to go to work. I work at a food truck and I'm terrified sometimes to even go to work because

I might just get snatched up by a sheriff. And then I don't know, sometimes the sheriff doesn't

do the proper thing, right? And then I get sent to a jail and then they might just improperly do

something. And I get sent to Venezuela or I get sent to El Salvador. I get sent somewhere that

I'm not supposed to be. This isn't a sanctuary city when we're actually having federal agents

in a big old building that we're paying for by the city.

There's no way this is a sanctuary city

when we have federal agents hitting people with their cars.

There's no way this is a sanctuary city at all.

And this proposal is just a joke and a laugh at everybody in this room

because at the end of the day,

when Trump invaded another country,

we did nothing in this country

and we're going to try to do something in a city

when literal federal agents are going to come down and start shooting people,

start detaining people because they're not the right kind of person.

This isn't a sanctuary city at all.

And this proposal is just a joke to everyone in this room.

Henry Gordon, then Lena, then Nathaniel, and Claudia Rios-Manzo.

My name's Henry Gordon.

I'm a longtime resident of District 7.

I'm proud that the city of Sacramento was a trailblazer

and approved a sanctuary city resolution way back in 1985.

That support was reaffirmed with a stronger sanctuary city resolution in 2017.

And part of that 2017 resolution was the creation of the Fuel Network,

which has done remarkable work on behalf of immigrants and refugees in the community

and has received continuing encouragement and funding from the city and other sources.

For those who are not familiar with FUEL, FUEL helps provide pro bono representation for immigrants.

It provides direct funding for a lot of pro-immigrant organizations like NorCal Resist.

I'm hoping that the city in the current circumstances will increase support for the fuel network.

Cruel and illegal attacks on the immigrant community require stronger measures,

and I encourage you to enact a new immigration platform and a binding ordinance that at a minimum includes the following.

Prohibit the use of city-owned property for ICE enforcement activities.

prohibit law enforcement officials from wearing masks during enforcement activities

and protect the rights of residents to peacefully assemble in protest on city-owned public spaces

and especially in the immediate area on Capitol Mall surrounding the John Moss Federal Building.

Thank you.

good afternoon good evening I don't know what time it is I am a Sacramento resident living

in district 6 and I'm here to urge my city to do the absolute bare minimum of protecting all

of its people today on international holocaust remembrance day I would like to briefly share a

story from my grandfather's childhood. He grew up in fascist Italy under Mussolini, and he passed

away last year in fascist America. My grandfather and his family put their lives on the line

protecting Jewish children and smuggled them over the border into Switzerland, despite the risk to

their family. Our city has a responsibility to protect us to that level. Our city has a

responsibility to protect immigrant families because it is the right thing to do. Sacramento

has been called a sanctuary city since 1985, but looking around at the treatment of my community

members, you would not know it. You all have allowed our city's police to collaborate with ICE,

harm families, and harass protesters. You must take concrete action to end Sac PD collaboration

with ICE. History will not look kindly upon ICE collaborators and City Council re-elections will

not look kindly upon ICE collaborators. Eric Guerra and Karina Talamantes, I appreciate that you're in

support of Councilmember Vang's resolution to ban ICE on city property. I am 100% in support of this

but I believe that we need to do more. Please Sacramento take real action while we still can.

Thank you.

Is Nathaniel here?

I don't see Nathaniel.

Claudia, then Lucero.

Good afternoon.

I'm Claudia Rios Manzo from California Immigration Project,

an immigration nonprofit based in Sacramento,

and I serve as the program coordinator for the Sacramento Fuel Network Program,

a city-funded program started in 2017.

Thank you to Councilmember Vane Guerra and Vice Mayor Talamante, excuse me,

for your proposal and advocacy to ban ICE from using city facilities,

and thank you to Asian American Liberation Network and NorCal Resist for your advocacy and leadership

in uplifting the demands of the community.

We are grateful for what this resolution means symbolically,

but also recognize that it must be met with additional accountability and ongoing commitment

to proactive action from the city.

On behalf of our partners and the community we serve,

I strongly urge you to not only pass these resolutions, but also ensure that all departments receive proper guidance in implementing them.

Our partners are already on the ground and in the streets doing work that keeps families together and provides access to essential services.

They have continued the work despite massive funding cuts from federal and state government.

The commitment to protecting the community needs to extend beyond this moment.

We know it will take time to repair the harm caused by these attacks while still providing essential ongoing support.

As the capital city of this state, the time is now to take action.

And as we have heard from community members and testimonies today, these attacks are not new,

but they have been superfunded and officers are operating with immunity.

There is no need for us to reinvent the wheel.

We can lean on expertise of partner organizations, statewide and national orgs who have led this

fight for decades and other municipalities for guidance and existing frameworks on preparing

for further attacks to our neighbors.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Lucero Ricks.

Lucero, Julia Kobielski-Elsley, Zander V. Adam Marino.

Hi, y'all.

My nickname is Santi.

My pronouns are they, them.

I apologize for speaking fast.

I would like to make sure I say everything I've written within the time allotted, and I'm anxious.

I am a descendant of Judge Brian Lawrence Ricks, Sr.

He was a judge within the municipal district and state levels.

He was appointed as a judge at the state by the governor at the time of his career.

My father was a U.S. citizen or is a U.S. citizen still currently, and my mom was not.

The only solution Judge Brian Lawrence Ricks Sr. had to help our blended family safety was for me to be born in Sacramento.

At the time my mom became a U.S. citizen, she had to renounce her citizenship of the country she was born in due to the presidential administration requirements at the time.

The path to citizenship in the U.S. has never been direct, accessible, nor equitable.

Even though my parents had been married for at least a decade, she wasn't granted U.S. citizenship until I was in eighth grade.

I love the city of Sacramento and the native land it occupies.

I am an active member of our community. I work in a job that brings all communities and walks of life together with the power and love of music.

I stand with the safety and love of humanity. I would like to reiterate these community demands that you all have been hearing today.

The city of Sacramento needs tangible implementation and change in city operations to protect our neighbors and loved ones from ICE activities in Sacramento.

the city must create an action plan to ensure transparency and public accountability.

Our leaders must ensure that their good intentions turn into tangible actions.

With that being said, there are two more demands, but I'd like to end with this.

Thank you all for your time. I hope you all do the right thing in consideration of all the voices

you hear today. By the words of the artists, rage against the machine. Know your enemy.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Is Lucero here?

I have Lucero Ricks.

Lucero.

Oh, that was me.

Okay, thank you.

Julia, then Xander V.

I don't see Julia.

Xander, then Adam Marino.

Good evening.

My name is Xander, and I live in District 4.

First off, I want to thank you for your time,

and thank you for those on the council

who have long backed immigration supporting policy in Sacramento.

I urge the rest of you to support item 14's demands.

Sacramento is a designated sanctuary city when it is that our representatives and city are actually going to live up to that standard set for themselves.

I urge that to be today.

We must expand the current legislation to protect our community members from the fascist takeover and the genocide taking place in our country.

By not doing so, you are encouraging the status quo of kidnapping, fear, and straight-up murder going on on our streets.

We are supporting a terrorist genocidal organization, ICE, by doing nothing.

When you cast your vote for this policy, I want you to ask yourself, which side of history do you want to be on?

When will you decide to show up?

When it's too late and your family members are being terrorized for being in the wrong place or saying the wrong thing?

a vote no is a vote for fascism genocide and terror in the meantime if you decide not to act

in your roles and support your community know that we will continue doing what we can to

protect ourselves people will still show up regardless of if anyone approves of peaceful

protesting in public spaces finally i want to extend a huge thank you to all the beautiful

folks and organizations that are fighting on the front lines and supporting our community members

and organizing ideas like the resolution we have set before us today.

Thank you.

I have 30 more speakers.

Adam Moreno, Isanthea Lopez-Castellano, Fago, Cristina Alvarez.

Good afternoon.

My name is Adam Moreno.

I'm a college student.

I returned from winter break just yesterday.

A few hours ago, I was in class.

I should still be there, but here I am instead.

The reality is, it's hard to focus on my studies when there are ice thugs terrorizing the nation.

It's hard when the horrors I learn about in history class are here in the flesh,

under another name, kidnapping and killing people.

It's hard to wake up in the morning when the first thing I see is another innocent executed.

It's hard to enjoy my youth when me, my family, my neighbors,

another living, breathing person with dreams just like mine could be next.

How can I look toward my future when it's held between someone's trigger fingers?

There is no negotiating with terrorists, and that is exactly what ICE is.

The sharks are circling.

Raise your hands if you're scared.

I know I am.

Look at your constituents.

Your people are scared.

But more than that, we are angry.

It is Minnesota now, us tomorrow.

We need action, not virtue signaling.

Strengthen Agenda 14 because your words alone will not save us.

Create an action plan.

Prohibit our city from collaboration or sharing data with ICE.

Stop SAC PD from citing and intimidating protesters.

You know what the right thing to do is.

So put your money where your mouth is and do it.

passing number 14 is just a start fuck ice and free palestine

it's zaina lopez castellano i don't see movement fago then christina then fatima

and sir please take your seat we can't have you kneeling in the in the aisle way

yes please take your seat i can't have you kneeling in the aisle way

Fago.

Hello, council.

Hello, council.

It's been a while.

We were back here in November talking about trying to strengthen our resolutions and our policies against ICE.

And I kind of feel like today my council member, district four, his presence here kind of is symbolic of what this resolution kind of feels like.

Too little, too late.

you know it's been a long time and while it is good i do want to thank council member vang and

the others that have been working on this it's not enough a resolution is nothing but a promise

but a promise without anything to back it is meaningless we need policies that have teeth not

six months from now not three months from now we need them yesterday people are already in danger

We keep hearing, oh, it's not Minneapolis yet.

It hasn't got here yet.

But I've got my neighbors in my neighborhood here in Midtown,

right there in Midtown, already getting stopped by ICE agents

on their way to the restaurant to get food for themselves

within a block of their own home.

And these are homeowners here in Sacramento.

Residents, these are just everyday people.

These are freaking neighbors.

And when you look at who was here out here tonight,

Yeah, sure, people have a lot of anger in the way they're talking.

But they're not angry for no reason.

They're angry because they love their communities.

They love their neighbors.

They love knowing that their friends will be safe and their families will be safe,

that children can go to school without being afraid that their parents will be abducted while they're at school

or that they'll be abducted when they go to the hospital

or go to their appointments to try to follow the procedures.

They're supposed to be the legal format.

So as we progress, I know we like these feel-good moments and the the strongly worded messages

But we need actual action

The community is out there building the networks and building the communities that we need to help defend where the city won't

I want to know that the city is actually going to step up and be there with us. Thank you

Christina Alvarez and Fatima Garcia Dean Dana Schwartz

Good evening.

Ismael Ayala, Oscar Duarte, Lorenzo Batres, Shafing He, Dien Phan, Isidro Perez, Carlos Montoya.

These are just a few names of humans who are no longer with us.

Renee Good, I'm not going to list the rest of the names, there's more.

these lives are no longer here due to this agency called ICE Border Patrol these lives are no longer

here and the reason why I want to say that is because what are we going to do just because

it's not happening to us in this very moment does not mean it's not in our communities

right now we all have a name we all have a face we can hold each other accountable

but when ICE agents paid individuals of law enforcement entities

are killing others how can we hold those those accountable we have to use our city policies our

our own power. We have people power. You are people. We are people. How do we hold these

ICE agents accountable? It is happening in our communities.

How do we hold and what can you do? I appreciate the policy update that's being implemented or

hopefully will be, but what is the actionable,

what is the action that we're really going to implement here?

What is the action that's going to be taken to hold abuse of power accountable

and those abusing that power?

My name is Cristina Alvarez.

I am the chair of the Women's Committee for LACLA AFL-CIO here in Sacramento.

Thank you.

Good evening. I am Fatima Garcia, a labor organizer. DHS memo released by a whistleblower confirms what our communities have long known. DHS is now openly authorizing ICE agents to force their way into people's home without judicial warrants. This is an escalation of state violence, a direct attack on our families, on our workers, on our entire city.

Fuck your symbolic gesture of resolution.

We do not need empathy, empty statements of concern.

We are demanding long-term commitment, material investment, and concrete action.

Anything less is complicit.

This city has a responsibility to ensure that impacted families and migrant workers can meet their immediate needs, rent, food, paid wages,

and that children can continue attending school without fear of being disappeared or caged in concentration camps.

Protections without resources is not protection at all.

If our labor is good enough to keep this city running, then our lives are worth defending.

We are prepared to use our collective power, including the organized withholding of our labor

until our communities are safe and materially supported,

we will shut this fucking city down and you know it.

We demand immediate material support for impacted families and workers,

including rent relief, food assistance, emergency cash aid,

and safety school for children.

We demand that you do not cooperate in any form,

including data sharing, joint operations, or access to any city facility, enforcement of the California SB620,

No Secret Police Act, which prohibits ICE and other law enforcement from wearing masks to conceal their identity during operation, aiming to increase accountability.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Dana Schwartz.

Dana Schwartz, then Hazel, Samuel Walling, Miranda Chilp, C.T. Weber.

I don't see Dana or Hazel.

Samuel.

Following Samuel is Miranda, then C.T. Weber, then Anna Washington.

Good evening, council.

It's been a long afternoon.

as you can see by the light outside.

I think that I want to take my time talking to you here today

to reiterate how many people came tonight.

The people of Sacramento care about this.

We care about our neighbors and about our city.

And we just hope that you care as much as we do

because we need to be protected.

and whether we have to do it or whether you're going to step in and do it

is something that remains to be seen, but it has to happen.

We are a people that need each other, and we ask for your help.

And not just promising to help at some ambiguous time in the future.

As many people have said here today, we need real, actual policy changes,

commitment to helping your people, our people, our city.

Thank you.

Is Miranda here?

Miranda?

No.

CT?

Samuel?

Miranda?

CT?

Okay, so go ahead and Samuel and then CT.

Samuel first, please.

Thank you.

Thank you. I'd first like to acknowledge the SPD for the efficiency on redirecting traffic during marches, CHP for their observation during demonstration,

although I question allowing ICE to use any of their property as strategic areas for staging their operations.

However, I have to note that it does differ quite starkly from their efforts in 2006 during the four-day-long U.S.-sponsored agricultural ministerial

when they parked a small tank on the block east of the Capitol's Park,

determined in preparation for the expected activist influx

in the wake of the events that took place during the WTO-sponsored financial ministerial

held in Seattle just a few years prior.

In the interim, ICE was created as the administration enforcement entity

of the newly formed DHS in 2003 as a part of the response to terrorist attacks.

Known as the beginning of the global war on terror,

they were immediately given the budget to equip themselves with the latest surveillance and urban technology available.

In 2006, the same year as the Agricultural Ministry held here in Sacramento,

the USA Patriot Act was renewed and the DHS was provided with even more funding,

allowing federal enforcement entities to update their store of equipment and buy the transitive property

the same year a small tank could be seen a block east of the capital.

uh sp 54 ab 450 and ab 291 each provided clear mandate on who cannot share a person's integration

status with ice or border enforcement but none of these sanctuary measures provide anything near

what the community needs to see being done in the state of california or the city of sacramento

as adequate in response to ice there have been uh in 2020 there was some acknowledgement but

uh all that came out of that was more budget for greater tech uh which is a false more false

multiplier. We have people who are being untrained. They are being led by people like Jonathan Ross,

who's a murderer. He served 10 years in, or he served in the military, and now he's 10 years.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. C.T. Weber, then Anna Washington, then K. Sol.

Good afternoon or evening or whatever it is.

My name is C.T. Weber.

I'm the Peace and Freedom Party of Sacramento County Central Committee Chair.

And as people know, Peace and Freedom Party is California's only ballot qualified party in the state.

And I'm from District 7.

I guess it's kind of hard to everybody's hit on so many things.

I think the thing is that this is a good start,

but it obviously should not be the end product.

We need to go further.

I had a box of backbones that I wanted to bring down with me tonight and pass out,

but I'm sure you're going to find it on your own.

I think the thing that I want to say is that we need to strengthen our policy on Sacramento City,

possibly making an ordinance, including things like no masks, no data sharing, no collaboration with ICE,

have an arrest-free zone where people can protest without being attacked

and have the police protect us against ICE.

So that would be the first thing.

But I'd also like to have us do a support motion

in support of the general strike in Minnesota.

I think that would be very important.

So thank you very much.

Anna Washington, then Kay Sol, then Nikki Jones, then Diane Osoro.

Good afternoon. My name is Anna Washington. I'm a licensed child psychologist, faculty

member and a recently naturalized citizen. I am deeply appreciative and privileged to

have had a legal pathway to citizenship. And I recognize that many people do not have that

same axis, even though they have the same human value as everybody else. I also have

the same value today as I had three years ago when I was not a U.S. citizen. I'm here

today because I'd like to highlight the mental health impact of immigration on our children.

One fourth of children, maybe more, have at least one parent that is an immigrant.

And children who are immigrants or who have parents that are immigrants, especially if

they have a precarious immigration status, are at risk of mental health concerns and

suicide.

Less than a year ago, Jocelyn Carranza, an 11-year-old child who lived in Texas, completed

suicide. She completed suicide because she was terrified that ICE was going to

come to her house and deport her family members. Her death is on us. We have a

collective responsibility to keep children safe, including immigrant

children. I urge you to take concrete and actionable steps to protect our

children and I also urge you to consider the negative impact of non-immigrant

children who are especially at risk during times of immigration raids during

the racialized nature of immigration language and actions.

The next speaker is Kay Sol.

Kay Sol.

Following Kay Sol is Nikki Jones, then Diane Osorio.

Hi, y'all.

I'm Kay Sol.

I'm a gender-fluid, disabled, former activist, and I don't particularly like electoralism

anymore, but there's two particular candidates that have really made me interested in politics

in Sacramento, so thank you for that. I'm a small business owner, and before I was working

at Microsoft, and I was not just like a little bit complicit in what ICE was doing or what's

happening all around the world. I was like really, really complicit, and I wasn't going to talk about

this, but the lady before was talking about unaliving yourself. And about now two years ago,

I was like, I have these golden handcuffs. I just bought a house in Curtis Park. How am I supposed

to make ends meet? And I really, I had the choice of quitting and then staying alive or not quitting.

So when I say, like, what we're asking of you, like, oh, this is easy.