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An Alameda County supervisor is proposing a policy for “ICE Free Zones” and a response plan to protect immigrant communities from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
The plans by Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas were approved by the Alameda County Together for All Ad Hoc Committee to move forward to the full Board of Supervisors, which will vote on Tuesday.
“Our goal is simple: every resident should be able to access health care, courts, schools, and public services without fear,” Fortunato Bas said Friday in a statement. “ICE should not be above the law, disrupting our daily activities and endangering our communities.”
The proposals come as thousands of protesters have turned out in Minnesota to oppose an immigration crackdown ordered by the Trump administration that has lasted more than six weeks. A 37-year-old American citizen, Renee Good, was shot to death by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.
“Coordinated response plans and ICE-Free Zones are essential tools in building community safety and power during this time,” Fortunato Bas said.
One proposal would direct the county administrator to create a coordinated plan that details rapid-response protocols among county agencies, community partners, and government entities, according to Fortunato Bas’s statement.
“This plan includes staff training, public communication strategies, and measures to safeguard access to county services, courts, hospitals, and healthcare facilities,” the statement said.
The plan would set “ICE Free Zones” to prohibit the use of county-owned or county-controlled properties, including parking lots, vacant lots, garages, or nonpublic areas of buildings for ICE staging areas, processing locations, or operations bases.
Fortunato Bas represents the Fifth District, which includes the cities of Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont, and portions of Oakland.
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So the open border, American citizen hating, Alameda supes want an ‘ICE free zone’ to protect illegal immigrants. People who illegally stole into this country or overstayed visas, illegal immigrants who the supes, along with their American hating dem party, pay for their housing, pay for their social services, pay for their food, pay for their medical, all on the backs of American citizens who actually pay for it all in taxes. It is not the responsibility of American taxpayers to shoulder the burden of illegal immigrants because DEMOCRATS want them as their next voting bloc. Imagine the non-existent housing crisis if American citizens were not having to compete with 25+ million illegal immigrants also looking for housing.