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Residents press Santa Maria council to form immigration ad hoc committee; mayor asks staff to draft resolution
Summary
Dozens of residents urged the Santa Maria City Council on Jan. 20 to create an immigration ad hoc committee and to make ICE arrest numbers in the city public. Council asked the city manager to draft a resolution for consideration and scheduled staff follow-up on Feb. 3.
Dozens of residents told the Santa Maria City Council on Jan. 20 that federal immigration enforcement is destabilizing families and asked the council to create an immigration ad hoc committee and to make local ICE arrest data part of the public record.
Speakers representing community organizations, advocacy networks and individual residents described recent enforcement activity they said occurred in and near Santa Maria and pressed the council to act. "As of today there have been 475 kidnappings within our region, with 373 of those happening here in Santa Maria," said Michelle Ambrise, a policy advocate and volunteer with the 805 Rapid Response Network, quoting figures provided by local…
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