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Long Beach council to draft resolution calling for federal immigration accountability, seeks DHS leadership removal
Summary
The council voted to draft and transmit a resolution urging federal accountability for Department of Homeland Security actions and calling for the resignation or impeachment of DHS Secretary; public comment focused on ICE raids, alleged local collaboration, and demands for concrete local protections and notifications.
The Long Beach City Council voted to instruct the city attorney to draft a resolution calling for federal immigration accountability — including language that could request the resignation or impeachment of the Department of Homeland Security secretary — and to transmit the city's position to California's congressional delegation and other federal officials.
Council members framed the resolution as an emergency response to recent immigration‑enforcement actions that residents say have terrorized neighborhoods. "This action is essentially, the city council in Long Beach, casting a vote of no…
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