A RESOLUTION affirming The City of Seattle’s support of immigrant communities; stating its support of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival (DACA) program; recognizing the roots and community DACA recipients have built in the Seattle/King County region and beyond, and The City of Seattle’s commitment to an inclusive, welcoming City and advancing policies to protect vulnerable communities while denouncing national and federal policies and rhetoric targeting immigrants and immigrant communities.
The the bill is signed and the chair will sign it the is passed. That's what I want to say. The bill's passed in the journal so please the read the report of the full council agenda item one the short title please. The Report of the Full Council Agenda Item one Resolution 31779 from the City of Sale, Support of Immigration Immigrant Communities stating in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. McAllen Councilmember Gonzales for this one. Thank you. This resolution affirms the City of Seattle support of DOCA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act and clearly states that Dhaka beneficiaries and their families are here to stay. We do this primarily through the following ways, requiring that our Office of Intergovernmental Relations and our federal lobbying team prioritize the passage of a Clean Dream Act by Congress and that they do so swiftly. Opposing threats to withhold money from the city because of our sanctuary policies. Denouncing anti-immigrant. Show me your paper laws like the recent Texas Senate Bill four can, and by convening an inclusive stakeholder engagement process to help the city develop policies that preserve and protect our diverse communities. I want to reserve some comments for the end, but that's an initial description of the resolution. So I'd like to move for the adoption of the resolution to the extent I need a second. Also, can that any further comments from colleagues? I'm not seeing any. Why don't you continue, Councilmember Goodall? I'll send you close discussion. Great. I want to thank several different following groups and organizations for helping us with drafting the language of the resolution, and of course, thank them for their ongoing efforts to lead these efforts in making sure that we are advancing the rights of our immigrant communities, particularly as it relates to our youth who are undocumented. And those folks, our organizations are the Washington Dream Coalition. They're representatives from the Washington Dream Coalition here today, the Seattle Immigrant and Refugee Commission, One America and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. And I will also also want to thank the union for my office, who really helped draft this this resolution. And this is her. These are her 2/1 big resolutions out of the office. And she did a great job. And I just want to publicly acknowledge her for all of her tremendous efforts and work in drafting two outstanding resolutions and bringing community together to be able to celebrate in this way. DOCA, as we all know, is under threat right now. It is something that was won by the undocumented community as a result of young undocumented Americans in our community fighting like heck to lead the way to get us DOCA. And under this federal administration, we are now seeing that that is under threat and we will be relying on on these young leaders to be able to tell us what it is they need to hold them up and to make sure that they continue to be part of this country. And I just and to you all personally, I know some of you personally and have had a pleasure of of working with you and community. And I just want to give you from a personal note from myself, which is that I admire all of your courage every day to really stand up for who you are and for your values. And I hope to be able to work with you and support everything that you need to be able to continue in this fight. So thank you for everything that you're doing. Thank you. So this resolution has been moved and seconded. I'm not seeing any further comments. All those in favor please signify by saying I am right. And he opposed. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Please read the agenda item number two.