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Alcala, Abigail From: Magallon, Becky Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 4:25 PM To: Huizar, Maria Cc: Mitre -Ramirez, Norma Subject: FW: Thank you for your vote Maria, Forwarding an email the Mayor received regarding the ICE Contract item. Thanks. Becky Magallon I Secretary to the City Manager City Manager's Office I bmagallon@santa-ana.org 714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply email and immediately delete the email you received. From: Debbie[ Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:59 PM To: Pulido, Miguel Subject: Thank you for your vote Dear City Council Member, I am writing to you today to put a face to one of your jail employees. My husband has been a corrections officer for Santa Ana for the past 20 years. We have three children ages 9 , 9 , and 13 years old. Their lives are about to get completely rocked if you decide to close the jail. My husband is a wonderful role model to my lads. He is a law-abiding citizen who has dedicated his life to law enforcement. My kids know that their Daddy may lose his job. They have noticed because it's been a topic of conversation at our home for almost 8 years now. I will be honest, it's been hard to live Linder that cloud that he may lose his job. He has given so much of himself to the city. It has been a stressful roller coaster ride of emotions. Sometimes things look ok and other times it looks like they will close the jail. My husband has sat silently at every single council meeting that the ICE contract has been brought up at. Unlike the few upset people who are protesting against his job he cannot defend himself. If he were to get up there and yell back at them he will lose his job and make the city look bad. So out of respect for his chief and the city he remains silent. My husband has dealt with thousands of inmates over the years. He has seen the programs in the youth modules at the jail be a success with these young kids in the past. He has spoken to transgender inmates who are actually happy to be at that j ail in place of other jails were they were treated poorly. My husband also has been told repeatedly that the conditions at SAJ are much better than any other ICE facility they've ever been to. Continuously he is told that it's so nice to be able to speak Spanish to officers considering they came from somewhere where they were not able to communicate their needs because of language barriers. Repeatedly he has heard of the poor conditions of only eating sack lunches for every meal at other ice facilities.