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Coalition of residents urges San Bernardino council to denounce ICE raids, address air quality and warehouse impacts
Summary
A coalition of neighborhood groups and community organizations used the council's public-comment period to call on San Bernardino officials to denounce recent ICE raids, prioritize air-quality improvements and invest in job centers and community benefits rather than expanding warehouse development.
Dozens of residents and community organizers addressed the San Bernardino City Council during the July 2 public-comment period to demand action on multiple issues they say are harming neighborhoods: immigration enforcement raids by ICE, worsening air pollution tied to logistics and warehouse activity, and a lack of local jobs and community investment.
A number of speakers identified themselves as members of the "San Bernardino Airport Communities," a coalition of residents and organizations representing neighborhoods near the airport and logistics corridors.
"The impact that this violence has been having in the people that are supposed to be representing, it's awful," one community speaker…
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