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(@)MALDEF I know that none of you support the Administration's goals or tactics. However, it is important to analyze and understand them to recognize that this Administration is very likely to adopt practices to separate detained immigrants from their family and support. Such detention assignment practices would be consistent with the current Administration's apparent aim of malting the lived experience of immigrants, especially those who refuse to waive their rights to due process, as difficult as possible. In other words, it is very likely a goal of the current Administration to separate detained immigrants from their support systems, including family. The stated intention of the Trump Administration to construct new detention centers in remote locations near the border supports this assessment of the Administration's likely practices in detention assignment. March 21, 2017 National Headquarters Los Angeles Sent via email Regional Office Dear Mayor and Council Members: 634 S. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90014 Mayor Miguel Pulido Tel: 213.629.2512 Mayor Pro Tem Michele Martinez Fax: 213.629.0266 Councilmember Vicente Sarmiento San Antonio Regional Office Councilmember Jose Solorio Chicago Councilmember David Benavides Regional office Councilmember Juan Villeg as 11 East Adams Street simply unsupported under the Trump Administration. Suite 700 Councilmember Sal Tinajero Chicago, IL 60603 20 Civic Center Plaza Tel: 312 .427.0701 Santa Ana, CA, 92701 Fax: 312.427..427.066 91 proposals to change policy, while taking few steps to actually enact policy change. I know that none of you support the Administration's goals or tactics. However, it is important to analyze and understand them to recognize that this Administration is very likely to adopt practices to separate detained immigrants from their family and support. Such detention assignment practices would be consistent with the current Administration's apparent aim of malting the lived experience of immigrants, especially those who refuse to waive their rights to due process, as difficult as possible. In other words, it is very likely a goal of the current Administration to separate detained immigrants from their support systems, including family. The stated intention of the Trump Administration to construct new detention centers in remote locations near the border supports this assessment of the Administration's likely practices in detention assignment. RE: Council Agenda Item 85B -- ICE Contract Sacramento Program Office 1512 140h Street Dear Mayor and Council Members: Sacramento, CA 95814 Tel: 916.444,3031 I write, on behalf of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Fax: 916.444,7207 Educational Fund), to urge you to reject the proposal to negotiate a new contract with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to detain immigrants in Santa San Antonio Regional Office Ana. The idea that the City should once again engage in the business of detaining 110 Broadway immigrants, who are not guilty or charged with any criminal offense, in jail Suite 300 facilities because the immigrants will be closer to family and legal assistance is San Antonio, TX 78205 Tel: 210.224.5476 simply unsupported under the Trump Administration. Fax: 210.224.5382 The Trump Administration has, in its first weeks, sought to create fear and Washington, O.C. confusion in the immigrant community nationwide by announcing sweeping Regional office proposals to change policy, while taking few steps to actually enact policy change. 101616th Street, NW This concerted campaign is self-evidently designed to drive fearful immigrants to Suite 100 Washington, DC 20036 withdraw from societyor to depart the county. With a goal of catalyzing "self - p y g y g Tel. 202.293.2828 deportations," the main purpose of the Trump Administration's pronouncements to Fax: 202.293.2849 date is to scare immigrants into believing that enforcement will be so swift, unpredictable, and draconian that they should choose to abandon their rights and depart the country. I know that none of you support the Administration's goals or tactics. However, it is important to analyze and understand them to recognize that this Administration is very likely to adopt practices to separate detained immigrants from their family and support. Such detention assignment practices would be consistent with the current Administration's apparent aim of malting the lived experience of immigrants, especially those who refuse to waive their rights to due process, as difficult as possible. In other words, it is very likely a goal of the current Administration to separate detained immigrants from their support systems, including family. The stated intention of the Trump Administration to construct new detention centers in remote locations near the border supports this assessment of the Administration's likely practices in detention assignment.