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Resident urges Albany council to note white-supremacist march and immigration enforcement concerns
Summary
During public comment, Mark Stewart told the council he was alarmed by a white-supremacist march in Washington, D.C., and raised concerns about immigration enforcement actions; the comment was taken for the record with no council response recorded.
Mark Stewart, an Albany resident, used the public-comment period at the start of the July 6 council work session to call attention to a white-supremacist march in Washington, D.C., over the July 4 weekend and to connect those events to concerns about immigration enforcement.
“My name is Mark Stewart. I live here in Albany,” he said. “We had an entire company of white supremacists marching through our capital on our nation's 200 [sic] birthday. And that should really deeply bother everybody, regardless of race or creed.”
Stewart also described his alarm at reports of aggressive immigration enforcement and said the combination of public displays of white supremacy and enforcement actions is concerning. The council did not discuss or respond during the public-comment period; the clerk said comments would be taken under advisement and entered into the public record.
The remark was recorded during the public-comment agenda item and there was no formal council action tied to the comment.
