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Flores, Dora <br />From: <br />Lena Tran < lena@vietrise.org > <br />Sent: <br />Monday, May 03, 2021 6:53 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Cc: <br />general@vietrise.org <br />Subject: <br />Please Vote Yes On Santa Ana Resolution in Support of the VISION Act (AB 937) <br />Dear Mayor Sarmiento and Santa Ana City Council Members, <br />My name is Lena Tran with VietRISE. On behalf of VietRISE, I am writing to ask you to vote Yes on the resolution in <br />support of the VISION Act (AB 937 - Carrillo) on Tuesday, May 4. Thank you to Councilmember Phan and Mayor <br />Sarmiento for putting it on the agenda. <br />The VISION Act is a state bill that would stop the practice of transferring immigrants and refugees who have already <br />been deemed eligible for release from being transferred by local jails and our state prison system to immigration <br />detention. The VISION Act takes urgent and necessary strides toward ensuring that millions of dollars in local and state <br />tax dollars are not used to put immigrants in dangerous health conditions in immigration detention and separate <br />immigrant families and communities. <br />Furthermore, the VISION Act addresses anti -Asian violence and puts an end to the cycle of trauma and violence for <br />Black, Latinx, and Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee communities who are being double punished through <br />incarceration and deportation. Countless refugee community members who survived war and violence and were <br />incarcerated as youth are now being indefinitely placed in ICE detention in California due to ICE transfers. <br />In 2016, Santa Ana passed the strongest sanctuary city ordinance in the country and committed the city's support with <br />the CA Values Act. This resolution presents another opportunity for Santa Ana to strongly demonstrate its commitment <br />to protecting refugee and immigrant communities from cruel detention and deportation in the city and statewide. <br />Please vote yes on the city resolution in support of the VISION Act. We thank you for your local leadership in setting a <br />standard for bold and strong immigrant rights advocacy. Please confirm receipt of this email correspondence. <br />Best regards, <br />Lena Tran <br />Pronouns: She/Her/Hers <br />Youth Organizer <br />lena vietrise.or vietrise.org <br />