ICE and immigration enforcement

“There’s an area that says the Oakland Police Department shall not enforce nor assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, officials in enforcing civil immigration violations to the fullest extent by the law.”

“First of all, in terms of what is all— what is in the executive order, but we cannot count on the fact that we are always going to have a mayor that supports undocumented communities, right?”

“I’d like to make a short statement if possible. So as the community may be aware of, there was ICE activity in West Oakland today near Hoover Elementary and Harriet Tubman ECE.”

“What is this, 415? It’s copyrighted 1995 to 2015 and printed in 2017. Has this been reviewed or updated in light of our current environment? Because Section 415.5 does state that the Chief of Police or the Chief’s designee has the discretion to comply with an ICE detainer request, which to me seems in conflict with the mayor’s executive order.”

“I think that there are multiple avenues that we can go about really righting those wrongs. But then in this moment, I think what we are really addressing is just this reaffirming of communities here in Oakland that here in the city of Oakland, this is a sanctuary city for all of our immigrant communities.”

“I understand the importance of moving towards greater public safety, and I want to make sure that our most vulnerable populations are protected as well, because we have— we’re not even a year into this Trump administration where they have said that they’re going to detain and deport 3,000 people per month.”

“I, based on what you’ve shared, I understand how it’s been really helpful to us in terms of identifying perpetrators, but I think that we need to be really conscious as leaders within Oakland, as community members within Oakland and within the sanctuary city policy, just be really conscious about those unintended consequences when using that kind of surveillance data?”

“If you get 911 calls about people being snatched off the street and there’s no identifiers on them, how are your officers being trained to respond to determine if these are federal agents or if someone’s actually posing as one?”