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Large public turnout urges Los Gatos council to forbid use of town resources for ICE activities
Summary
More than a dozen residents urged the council during verbal communications to place a formal item limiting town cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, citing recent enforcement actions and the town’s history of Japanese American incarceration.
At the Feb. 3 Los Gatos council meeting, a long series of public commenters urged the council to place on its agenda a local law or resolution prohibiting town resources, property and personnel from being used to assist ICE or other federal immigration enforcement.
Multiple residents linked the request to the town’s history during Japanese American incarceration and recent national enforcement operations. "History shows us that great harm doesn't begin all at once. It begins when people are taken quietly," said Carol…
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