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Residents urge Alexandria to adopt ethical-investment policy and press sheriff to explain ICE transfers
Summary
Dozens of residents at the Nov. 5 public hearing asked Alexandria City Council to adopt an ethical‑investment/divestment resolution and to summon Sheriff Sean Casey to explain voluntary transfers to ICE, citing humanitarian and due‑process concerns.
Dozens of Alexandria residents used the council’s public comment period on Nov. 5 to press elected officials to draft an "ethical investment" resolution that would pull city pension and other public funds from companies they say profit from human-rights abuses abroad and surveillance technologies used against immigrants at home.
Speakers linked investments in defense and technology firms to violence in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere and asked the council to act quickly. "The second best time is now," said one speaker, urging council to move on a resolution modeled on Alexandria's 1985 divestment from apartheid South Africa. Several callers also…
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