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After hours of public comment, Whittier council directs staff to study ordinance requiring federal agents to identify themselves
Summary
After more than an hour of public comment urging the city to act on recent immigration enforcement activity, the Whittier City Council voted unanimously to ask staff for legal and public-safety analysis of an ordinance requiring federal agents to unmask and show identification and to return with recommendations at the Aug. 12 meeting.
The Whittier City Council on July 8 directed city staff to analyze proposed local measures in response to recent immigration-enforcement incidents in and around Whittier and to return with legal and public-safety recommendations at the council meeting on Aug. 12.
The public comment period, which included dozens of speakers, focused largely on alleged immigration-enforcement actions described by residents as unannounced, masked operations. Claudia Pangelos Marin, a 36-year resident, told the council: “I’m here tonight with a deep concern for the silence of this council during a time of fear, division, and government sanctioned trauma…
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