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Dozens of speakers urge Ventura County supervisors to end sheriff’s collaboration with ICE
Summary
During the public-comment period at a Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting, residents called for the county and sheriff to stop transferring people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, citing overcrowding, inadequate medical care and family separation.
Dozens of residents used the public-comment period of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting to urge supervisors to end the sheriff’s collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying transfers to federal immigration detention facilities expose people to inhumane conditions and break up families.
Veronica Hernandez, an organizer with the Project Community Organization, told the board: "When our county releases our people to ICE, it becomes complicit in these injustices." Hernandez said detention centers are "inhumane, overcrowding, inadequate medical care, bad food, and…
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