85A - RESO - PROTECT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

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RESOLUTION NO. 2016 -XXX A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND VICTIMS OF TRUST ACT VIOLATIONS FROM NEEDLESS DEPORTATIONS BY EXERCISING MAXIMUM USE OF PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION WHEREAS, immigrant workers and families make significant contributions to every facet of the City of Santa Ana economic, educational and cultural life; and WHEREAS, City government has a responsibility to both maintain public safety and ensure that all residents feel secure, respected and able to interact with public safety officials without fear; and WHEREAS, there is a consensus that United States immigration laws are outdated, unjust, and in need of reform; and WHEREAS, immigration law enforcement is the purview of the federal government, and conflation of civil immigration law enforcement and local criminal law enforcement have resulted in considerable erosion of; and public safety by creating social distance between police and the community WHEREAS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has recently discontinued its failed "Secure Communities" program which gave rise to Arizona's infamous 561070; and WHEREAS, on Jan. 12014, the CA legislature passed the Trust Act (AB 4) to protect California residents against the controversial Secure Communities program by shielding certain immigrants from deportation; and WHEREAS, Samuel Sixtos, A #095735387, is a Santa Ana resident who was unlawfully turned over to ICE by the Orange County Sheriff's Department in violation of the CA law TRUST ACT (AB 4) resulting in the unjust detention of Samuel at the Adelanto Detention Center; and WHEREAS, Samuel works low -wage jobs like picking vegetables and washing dishes to help support his single mother and his two U.S. citizen siblings who are students at the Santa Ana Unified School District; and WHEREAS, Samuel's advocacy and story has helped educate Santa Ana residents, lawyers, policy makers, and the media, about the importance of the TRUST ACT including pressuring Attorney General Kamala Harris to hold law enforcement accountable when violating the law; and WHEREAS, Samuel received support from federal, state, and local elected officials while he was detained, including a support letter from Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D -46th) and Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D -4711) documenting the hunger strike Samuel undertook to protest his incarceration; and 85A -1