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Residents urge Bell City Council to halt mobile-home relocations amid ICE raids
Summary
At the Jan. 28 council meeting residents and community organizers urged the City of Bell to stop plans that could displace mobile-home park residents, linking recent ICE activity and a lack of city outreach to fears of eviction and family separation. Speakers called for alternatives and for the council to prioritize residents over profit.
Residents, advocates and at least one city commissioner pressed the City of Bell on Jan. 28 to halt moves they say would displace mobile-home park residents and to do more to protect tenants amid recent immigration-enforcement activity.
"We're not trash like you think we are," said Brianna, a resident who addressed the council during the meeting's public-comment period, describing fear after Jan. 23 enforcement activity. "You guys care about more about this super dumb project than your city."
Multiple speakers framed the dispute as both a housing and public-health issue. Beatrice Gonzalez, a registered nurse and member of SEIU 721, urged council members to "reconsider displacing the Florence and Bell Mobile Home Park residents," saying eviction and displacement "disrupt medical care and medication adherence" and can produce worse health outcomes for vulnerable residents.
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