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G� LIM& ORANGE IIVIIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE ocapICCJ OCCCO Dear Mayor Sarmiento and Santa Ana City Council Members, My name is Jonathan Paik with the Orange County Civic Engagement Table (OCCET). On behalf of OCCET, I am writing to ask you to vote Yes on the resolution in support of the VISION Act (AB 937 - Carrillo) on Tuesday, May 4. Thank you to Councilmember Phan and Mayor Sarmiento for putting it on the agenda. The VISION Act is a state bill that would stop the practice of transferring immigrants and refugees who have already been deemed eligible for release from being transferred by local jails and our state prison system to immigration detention. The VISION Act takes urgent and necessary strides toward ensuring that millions of dollars in local and state tax dollars are not used to put immigrants in dangerous health conditions in immigration detention and separate immigrant families and communities. Furthermore, the VISION Act addresses anti -Asian violence and puts an end to the cycle of trauma and violence for Black, Latinx, and Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee communities who are being double punished through incarceration and deportation. Countless refugee community members who survived war and violence and were incarcerated as youth are now being indefinitely placed in ICE detention in California due to ICE transfers. The VISION Act will advance critical reform that will ensure the health, safety, and restoration of immigrant communities across Orange County. As an AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmetnal Justice alliance that works directly with impacted communities, we must ensure that our county does not continue to perpetuate violence and incarceration through detention and deportation in the region. In 2016, Santa Ana passed the strongest sanctuary city ordinance in the country and committed the city's support with the CA Values Act. This resolution presents another opportunity for Santa Ana to strongly demonstrate its commitment to protecting refugee and immigrant communities from cruel detention and deportation in the city and statewide. Please vote yes on the city resolution in support of the VISION Act. We thank you for your local leadership in setting a standard for bold and strong immigrant rights advocacy. Please confirm receipt of this email correspondence. Best regards, Jonathan Paik, Executive Director, Orange County Civic Engagement Table Gloria Alvarado, Executive Director, Orange County Voter Information Project Tracy La, Executive Director, VietRISE Susan Cheng, Organizing Director, AHRI for Justice