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Speakers call on Long Beach to consider emergency eviction moratorium and other measures after reported ICE activity
Summary
Public speakers urged the council to adopt an eviction moratorium and press a local hotel to end a contract housing ICE agents after recent immigration-enforcement incidents; callers described fear in the community and asked the city to explore legal options.
Several members of the public used the Sept. 16 public-comment period to urge the City Council to take action after reported immigration-enforcement activity in Long Beach.
Lou Rosen said recent ICE "kidnappings" — he described an incident that "most recently claimed five members of our community at Bixby Knolls car wash this past Saturday" — create terror for workers and families. Rosen urged the council to…
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