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Public commenters urge compassion on immigrants and unhoused while criticizing commissioners' rhetoric
Summary
During public comment, multiple residents urged county leaders to treat immigrants and people experiencing homelessness humanely and criticized rhetoric they said harmed those communities; speakers also called for civic conversation rather than escalation.
Residents used the public-comment period at Tuesday’s Board of County Commissioners meeting to press for humane treatment of immigrants and people experiencing homelessness and to call for civil discourse among local leaders.
Linda Warren of Winlock said she believes elected officials should lead with compassion. “Swope has said things that bring harm to the immigrant and to the homeless,” Warren said, and she urged adherence to the larger moral imperative to "love thy…
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