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De Anda said Amezcua’s public advice to avoid confrontational statements about the Trump administration or <br />ICE enforcement actions will do nothing to quell the fear of residents in the city. <br /> <br />“Community members need action now. They need things like a robust legal defense fund that’s going to <br />represent them if they were to be detained,” she said. “What the mayor is doing, where it’s just kind of <br />pretending like things aren’t happening in the community to the most vulnerable populations – It’s not good <br />leadership.” <br />“One is that those who are reporting that there has been no ICE activity at city council meetings from the Santa <br />Ana police department are lying. And the other alternative, which is not necessarily better, is that that <br />information is not making its way to leaders within the Santa Ana Police Department,” they said. <br />“There’s nothing new about the mayor coming after me,” Lopez said. “I really recommend that she seek <br />professional help.” <br /> <br />“What I’ve heard from my constituents is that they want a unified council and leadership, and not a mayor that <br />is consistently trying to bully and harass me for simply giving my opinion.” <br /> <br /> <br />47 people arrested at UC Irvine after police, sheriff called in over protest <br />The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the charges were part of “an ongoing nationwide effort” to <br />“intimidate, harass, and silence pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.” <br />https://abcnews.go.com/US/uc-irvine-protest-escalates-demonstrators-occupy-campus- <br />building/story?id=110282898 <br /> <br /> <br />Community Opinion <br />Diaz: Who Is The Real Bogeyman In Santa Ana? <br />https://voiceofoc.org/2023/01/diaz-who-is-the-real-bogeyman-in-santa-ana/ <br /> <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />