Immigration enforcement

Speaking as president of the Los Gatos Anti-Racism Coalition, drew parallels between the Japanese American incarceration and current federal immigration enforcement, and asked the council to discuss the DEI commission's recommendations, including employee training and a stakeholder task force.

A former Palo Alto council member said local law enforcement should proactively protect residents from masked federal agents and reminded the council of the 2017 Los Gatos inclusive-community resolution he says was based on his 2016 memo.

Urged the town to match county-level protections barring ICE from town property and to act on the DEI Commission's draft resolution.

Cited federal detention statistics to argue the town should not cooperate with ICE and should protect residents' constitutional rights.

Read portions of the proposed DEI resolution and asked why the council would not act on its own advisory commission's recommendation.

A high school student who organized a 400-person walkout urged the council to adopt the resolution, saying ICE presence would make the town feel less safe.

Spoke personally about feeling safe biking home in Los Gatos and fearing that ICE enforcement would destroy that sense of community safety.

Urged the council to prohibit ICE from using town property and to refuse collaboration, citing a shooting of a man by ICE in Patterson and actions by San Jose and Santa Clara.

Echoed Suzuki and said she'll keep coming back until the town passes a resolution refusing ICE cooperation and protecting constitutional rights.