ICE and immigration enforcement

“We’re living through a federal administration that is openly targeting immigrants, demonizing trans people, attacking poor and working-class communities, slashing social services, criminalizing homelessness, and investing billions into punishment and war and detention while we tell— while we’re telling ordinary people, uh, while they tell ordinary people that there is no money for care.”

“I mean, our chief of police— I didn’t vote for the current chief of police because when he was the sheriff of LA County, he was out there talking to Jeff Sessions about, you know, how our sanctuary city laws were not well.”

“Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for, um, that, Council President. Colleagues, our students are leading right now, and they’re doing it with courage. Last week, hundreds of high school students walked out of their classrooms and marched to City Hall with handmade signs, banners, demanding ICE out of LA once and for all.”

“Are we continuing to monitor, uh, the incoming, like, 911 call data to see whether people are not calling as frequently given the federal enforcement of immigration or things like that on a continuous basis?”

“Officer arrives on scene. Are we expecting officers to interrupt or to identify the appropriate person representing ICE to gain information about who they are, who the other officers are?”

“The second point, you know, who the data is shared with. You know, there is, we hear accusations all the time about, you know, us, the department, sharing data with ICE for immigration reasons, or ICE using out-of-state departments to kind of backdoor channel access to this data.”

“We’ve had multiple examples. In fact, I was down in Tijuana about a year and a half ago meeting with several veterans that had been deported from East Los Angeles.”

“I’m really grateful that you’ve presented this resolution, and it’s the kind of bold and brave action I think that public entities should be taking to ensure that when we say we stand with our immigrant families and that we are a sanctuary district, it is not just words but truly actions.”

“I appreciate that. I think, um, as you know, when it happened in June here and there, what we saw was the opposite, right, was that LAPD was And I know you’re not LAPD, but that’s what we observed was LAPD interacting with ICE and actually protecting ICE, not folks who were, you know, there to protest.”

“You know, I’m sorry if my question is a little bit too much of a hypothetical, but I also wanted to tie it similar to what we just heard in the last report. Uh, do we think that if ICE would have never shown up and, you know, invaded our community, that ridership would have grown?”

“I just wanted to rise and thank Councilmember Soto Martinez for bringing forward this motion. In these chambers, I think we’ve repeatedly documented the violence of federal ICE officers, of federal law enforcement that have really terrorized communities in Los Angeles.”

“Last week I had some folks actually lined up who had witnessed their car wash coworkers being abducted, leaving behind minor children who were not U.S. citizens. But as they were undocumented themselves, understandably they got concerned about coming in today.”

“As we continue to plan for major events in the city, including those that will draw international visitors, has there been a discussion or analysis of the impact of ICE enforcement actions on our TOT revenue?”

“Since its first patrol in June 2025, the Harbor Area Peace Patrols have provided daily information on ICE staging and activity in the Harbor Area communities of San Pedro, Wilmington, and the Port of Los Angeles.”

“On October 10th, my office received a report of ICE activity at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mar Vista.”

“That goes without question. Our schools welcome immigrant families, newcomer students, and many mixed-status households who rely on our campuses not only for education but for stability and trust.”