Recommendation to: 1) Direct City Attorney to draft a resolution entitled the Long Beach Values Act of 2017, affirming the City's commitment to the laws adopted in SB 54 (De Leon) and the City's continued support of the California Trust Act; 2) Direct City Manager, through the Office of Equity, to partner with local immigrant rights organizations, the Long Beach Sanctuary City Coalition, Centro Cha, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach City College, and Long Beach Unified School District, to write and present a local policy that expands on SB 54 in 60 days. Policy considerations should include: · Protecting and advocating for local DACA and DREAMER students. · Preventing future deportations of local residents. · Examining partnerships with LA County for local legal defense fund. · Protecting the confidentiality of local immigrant residents and their information, and ensuring no City resources are used to create registries based on religious affiliation, immigration status or any other protected class such as gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. · Affirm an
Okay. Thank you. Why don't we go ahead and do that at one of the other hearings? Really, really briefly. Actually, no, we're we're we're back. So we're going to go ahead and do the item, actually. So, Madam Clerk, why don't we read item 23. Communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Pearce, Councilmember Ortega, Vice Mayor Richardson direct city attorney to draft a resolution entitled the Long Beach Values Act of 2017, affirming the city's commitment to. Laws. Adopted and SB 54 and the city's continued support of the California Trust Act. Direct City Manager through the Office of Equity to partner with local immigrants rights organizations. The City of Long Beach. Sanctuary City Coalition. Central Charter. California State University. Long Beach. Long Beach City College and Long Beach Unified School District. To write and present a local policy that expands on SB 54 and 60 days. Thank you very much. I might turn this over to Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. I want to thank everybody for their hard work on this. I know many of us have been working on this for some time and and all of the organizations are here. And I'd like to thank them as well. Central Cha, the Sanctuary City Coalition. I know Long Beach Unified School District. We've involved them as well. Latinos in Action, Filipino Migrant Center, Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition. There's so many of them. Long Beach City College as well as Cal State. Long Beach. So as we know, this is a city that is the most diverse, in one of the most diverse in the United States, home to large communities of Latinos, Cambodians, Filipinos, Asian Pacific Islanders as a whole, and so many other cultures from all around the world. And as we know, one in four Long Beach residents are foreign born, and roughly 20% of those are considered undocumented, which means every resident in the city of Long Beach will be affected by these policies of some sort. As the daughter of an immigrant myself, I know firsthand the value of our immigrant community brings to the city of Long Beach. And frankly, if it wasn't for my mother's and my great grandmother sacrificed to come here, you know, we I certainly wouldn't be sitting in this seat. And I don't think that they ever thought that as immigrants, that their daughter, granddaughter would be now pushing policies to protect our communities in that sense. In addition, we heard from the federal government recently. The administration decided to end DOCA and we know that there are thousands of DOCA recipients here in the city of Long Beach, Cal State, Long Beach, Long Beach, City College and beyond. Approximately 800,000 of those young women and men received work permits and deportation relief through DOCA since its inception about five years ago. But I believe we need to do more here as a city. So what the item entails for all of us to understand is that there is two things. First, we're going to reaffirm our SB 54 promise. We put a lot of our efforts into State Bill 54 to ensure that it was passed, which it did, but it limits the detention for inmates with ice in it, curb state and local agencies from collecting and sharing personal information and release dates from local jails. So it will reaffirm our our our support there. Secondly, we will work through the Office of Equity to partner with our immigrant rights organizations, many of whom I mentioned earlier, and to make sure that we're partnering with them to do things such as protect our DOCA recipients and our immigrant communities as a whole, prevent future deportations, and to make sure we're working together to integrate our immigration, immigrant communities such as in ways like the work for making sure that immigrants have a place to access to employment, recognition of various things such as recognizing their out of country diplomas, affordable housing. There's so many different touch points. And I want to thank Jessica from Central CHA for bringing that information forward, because I think it's really important that we not only address the fact that there are issues going on with deportations, but it's a really comprehensive issue. This, in essence, is our this is our sanctuary policy. And it's a Long Beach Values Act is what we're calling it. We're revamping it because this is something that I know that is very important to the city of Long Beach. Every city has something a little bit different, but this is us. So not only does it provide protections, it will provide resources to our immigrants. So, again, I want to thank each and every one of you for your support in this and just know that we I personally will support you going on through through the many years as we tackle through these very hard challenges. And again, I want to thank everyone that's been on board with me to educate me as to what we could do a little bit better here locally and also as our as the first city to have signed on to the resolution with SB 54. So thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember, during the second hour of the motion. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I, too, am the result of immigrant parents. They came from to our vehicle. They came to El Paso, where I was born. So I'm a mixed Tex. Then came to Los Angeles, came to Long Beach to do my studies and then and so on and so forth, through to the present to where here I am today. That is very important. Back when I was a community college trustee back in 2004, 2005, there a resolution was brought forth for the DREAM Act that went through various iterations, but it never got passed. So DOCA came forward as a response to Congress's inability to pass the DREAM Act. The Dream Act. As many of you may know, is provides a pathway towards citizenship, something that I guess Congress has a hard time dealing with, but I guess are dealing with it now. And actually it's getting some bipartisan support. But that doesn't resolve what's happening with Chuck. We still have students that we represent participants who have submitted applications and who are now in limbo in regards to where their application goes from here. Should it sunset in March or at a time when kind of the president feels appropriate for him? So we have a quite we're in a quandary because we also have new applicants, people who want to apply for a new, darker status and want to continue their residency in the U.S. and work and most importantly, study, because that affects a lot of students who want to continue their education. They came over as young people went to our school system, are now ready to go into higher education, get their degrees and go on into the workforce. And there are some examples of people who have gone through our educational system and become lawyers and doctors but are afraid to practice because of their status. So Darker provides an opportunity for those individuals to apply for a work permit and continue their careers until there is a pathway towards citizenship, which the DREAM Act will hopefully someday provide. Whether the events that I held this weekend, I have the Fiesta in the park on Saturday for a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The day before, I had a reception. I and Dr. Connolly from Cal State Long Beach co-hosted a reception for Latino leaders and students at the Miller House, which is the president's, for lack of a better word, mention, I guess. Full. Very nice. Very beautiful. But whether the thing. Well, and one of the items that she brought out that day that morning, in fact, was that Cal State, Long Beach was setting aside $200,000 to help DOCA participants pay for DOCA status. That brought it. Yes, please. That brought a chill in my skin, brought a tear to my eye, because there's nothing that I care more about than anything else is the education of our children. And this provides that opportunity. So what we're doing here today is to protect those students, to protect those participants. I may not be well-known to everybody here, but it certainly is known to the 14th floor. I have a target participant working for me. I'm here and I'm proposing this and supporting this motion to protect her because of this fails and she goes away. She's out of a job. Not only is she out of a job, but she's in the registry where they can find her and deport her. And I cannot stand for that. She needs to be protected. As all, not the participants need to be protected. And I hope that with the assistance and the support of my council members that we will in fact not only protect Dhaka students everywhere, but our Dhaka participate on the fourth floor. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I want to thank my colleagues for bringing this item. And I am very, very happy to support it tonight. I'm grateful to the governor and the folks in the state legislature for working together to come up with amendments to SB 54 that I think were definitely deficient in the first draft of the ordinance and long until just until recently were fixed. And at a place where I think they allow for for prudent dialog between local and federal authorities, but not on the issue of immigration. I fully support us doing everything that we can to support those who want to gain naturalized citizenship here, helping them in any way that we can. This is I to let Councilwoman Gonzalez, my mother, naturalized here as a citizen, and I came here when I was seven and learned how to speak English when I was seven. And I believe that we live in a country that should be doing everything that we can to help people find comfort and freedom here. So I'm grateful to support this. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thanks. Just want to chime in from a spot on this item. And you know, I hope that we can continue to follow the conversations in congress. Around daka. We have a special fed led committee meeting tomorrow night on disaster preparedness, but we plan on passing our federal legislative agenda at the following meeting in November. So. So at that meeting in November, we will likely evaluate where the the law is in Congress and try to take some action there. But again, I'm going to vote in support of this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Councilman Gonzales. I'm sorry. You can go ahead. Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I will be supporting this motion as well. I don't believe I believe that our dreamers have contributed greatly to our country. They contributed greatly to our city. I, too, have a dreamer on my staff as we speak. And she's doing great work. She went to Cal State, Long Beach political science major, and she's come in and and done some wonderful work in our office. We would hate to lose her at this point. And and but more importantly, her family is a wonderful family. And this the the the repeal of of DOCA by the administration proposes to to to break up families. And I think that is the absolute wrong way to go. And so I'm in full support of this motion, and I think our city should be fully in support of of our dreamers. So thank you. Thank you to. Well, I as one of the sponsors obviously stand with all of our immigrants. And I'm going to continue to stand with them. And I'm really glad that we have the state that kind of laid out some some boundaries for us so that we can continue to say we support workers and immigrants here in our city because we've done so at the state level. And so I'm very thankful to have my colleagues on this item. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Mongo. I support chambers. I support state. Law. I really wish that we would follow our own process. 54 has passed. And this should have gone to our state legislative committee. And I think that a lot. Of the components of this are moot at this time. But I feel that we are a. City, that we support our residents. And with that, I hope that we can work through a process where state items. Go to the state committee and federal items go to the federal committee as we have set forth as our policy. So for that. Okay, Councilman Andrews. Yes. Thank you. I think the individuals in line, I think you can tell that this is a no brainer. You want it? Okay. Yeah. I'm totally supporting this item. But thank you, Councilman Austin. Yes. So it's great to see, though, that there's a majority in support already on this item. But I did have have a question quickly regarding the specifics to the author. Councilmember Gonzalez, it says, direct the city manager to the Office of Equity to partner with local immigrant rights organization to lobby Sanctuary City Coalition, Central Charter Council, their Long Beach Lobby, City College and Long Beach Unified School District to write and present a local policy that expands SB 54 and 60 days policy consideration should include blah, blah, blah. Is that coming back to the Council for the policy? Because we set the policy is that are those stakeholders going to recommend the policy to the city council for us to bring forth. Well, that they can add in. Yeah, absolutely. They're going to work together. And I think in conjunction with everything we've provided here, which is a lot of what they'd been asking for already, I think we can bring something back that is solidified within 60 days. So yes, they will work with the Office of Equity. They're going to craft something, come back in 60 days, and. Here we are. And it'll come to the city council. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. There is a councilman, mongo. Any chance it'll see the light of day at that state ledger before it comes back? I mean, if it's brought back with enough notice. For the state led committee, it's already passed. I realize that. Exactly. I think we should follow state law. I think that's a reasonable position. Just a. Thought. Okay. Okay. There's a there's a motion in a second. Let me go through the public comment now. Please come forward and we're going to do the first couple of three and then we'll get down to two like we did all the others. Go ahead. My name is too short and it won't stay down and I can't read. The thing on the podium goes down actually, which will lower it a little bit for you. Go ahead. It'll lower for you technology. Okay. Thank you. My name is Linda Fox. I'm a recovering that is. Retired academic, but I'm here tonight representing National Council of Jewish Women Long Beach. I am a recently retired state policy advocate for California. There are three of us in the state from the national organization Anti-gay. California supported SB 54 in its most visionary form as a priority bill. And in fact, 75 around the state supported through a lobby day and made 40 visits to legislators that day. It's not a perfect bill, but it's a crucial step forward. And what we need here without any delay is a local sanctuary policy which will address the gaps, the gaps in SB 54 and end and ensure that Long Beach City resources are not used for deporting people. The faith, faith based perspective of National Council of Jewish Women informs our actions on behalf of repairing. The harm and separation. Caused by a broken immigration system. We, as people of the Jewish faith are commanded to help heal the world, not cause destruction. And so that old adage, love your. Neighbor as yourself does not mean. Only citizens or people with papers living in the constant fear of deportations and law and and also fear of law enforcement have has a great impact in a number of our Long Beach neighborhoods where immigrant families. Live and work. I don't have to go into the fear factor. You know, it affects adult. Children. Young adults. DOCA, everybody. And no one should be. Forced into these difficult situations. A.J. W Long. Beach supports a Long Beach where everyone, regardless of immigration status, can live and work. In safety and dignity. A citywide sanctuary for all policy drafted with community input will defend the dignity and civil rights of the people who call Long Beach home. Please vote yes on drafting this policy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, everyone. My name is Carla Jimenez, and I'm with Latinos in Action. Every human being matters and does not deserve to be filled with walls of UN security when taking their children to school or conducting daily chores. The safety of our community is important if our immigrant community is in fear. We suffer. With them because. We cannot have a peaceful community. Long Beach needs a local sanctuary policy to prevent future deportations from families being separated. If families live fear of deportations or the law enforcement, this is going to keep causing a negative impact in the community and then even in the people's health, every human being matters. Let's go sanctuary now. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Good evening. My name is Gaby Gascon. I'm a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Long Beach and on a bi and Long Beach, which is a Filipino youth and student organization. And both of these organizations have been involved in the Sanctuary Long Beach campaign. And I work in the Second District. I speak to you today from a place of privilege. As a second generation Filipino American, I don't have to spell out the struggles that immigrant communities are facing today. I'm sure you are all well aware and I've seen my own family members go through these struggles while they're in the process of getting their papers. And it's I'm sure it's a common experience among your constituents and the people in this room. The city should be prioritizing the safety and well-being of those who make Long Beach a rich, multicultural city and ensure that their quality of life is just as good as everyone else's. And honestly, but last item is really frustrating to sit through. So I'm going to do my best to stick with this speech. But, you know, there has been support from city leadership for campaigns and developments that would directly affect those people that we need to be protecting the most, such as the 2028 Olympics. And, you know, like enticing Amazon to come set up their headquarters in our city when inviting with them the issues that directly affect immigrant communities like, you know, gentrification, contractual jobs and displacement, a militarized police presence, it drives out diversity, as we can see in the city of Seattle, which already has the Amazon headquarters. Tourism may be good for the rich, but we should be more concerned with the long term effects on the working class people who call Long Beach home. We have a chance to shift that focus from profits and revenue to the needs of the people. And yes, immigration enforcement is not a productive or appropriate use of local resources, but the Long Beach Police Department already. Has like 48%. Of the city budget. So with all of that money just assuring public safety for a, you know, a certain class of people and not the most vulnerable in our society, it's crucial now more than ever to show support for this legal fight here in America and protect everyone so our communities can continue to thrive. When people are not living in fear of deportation, they're more willing to report crimes, utilize public services, and enrich their lives by working or going to school. And especially now with talk of being rescinded, we often hear the language used to humanize the undocumented with their worth being placed in their occupation, their degrees, or their GDP value . First and foremost, these are human beings. And now before him, American I and everyone and on a bond is reminded of a community's forced migration. It's caused by 100 years plus of U.S. imperialism, which has kept our country economically undeveloped. That is why 6000 Filipinos leave the Philippines every day to find work overseas. 1 million out of 4 million Filipinos in the U.S. are undocumented. 20,000 Filipinos reside in West Side, Long Beach, and 130,000 Filipino youth are eligible for it. So do one right thing tonight and vote yes on this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. I'm really apologizing in advance. There is no way I would be able to follow that up. My name is Stephanie Morrison. So I'm a resident of the second District and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Long Beach Branch. When I originally made the speech, I was intending really to be able to compel some recalcitrant members of the council into voting in favor of it. However, with the unanimity that's being expressed here, I think that there is a real good basis for going forward, perhaps with a more expansive form of this sort of legislation, purely because if we are in put it frankly, if we are not provoking federal response against it and against the city, it is an inadequate policy. The federal government has made it clear, it has made it clear that they are going to be continuing on a race based deportation strategy, taking away residents and of the city people who have lived here for. Honestly, who cares how long and who cares about the amount of economic value that they contribute to the city? They're human beings with rights to exist without without fear. That if they complain about. Unsafe work conditions on their job, then they could be risking deportation. Or if they drop off their child. At school personally instead of that, they could be risking deportation. Robert It wasn't until 1986 with the amnesty bill that your own family had the ability to be able to stay here without fear of retribution from the fear of ice. And it was linked to a comparably sane Republican, you know, Ronald Reagan, that you had a legal status to be able to be the mayor. Here today, we have a much different federal government here today. We have a Republican Party that is refusing to acknowledging to a demographic shift and is refusing to organize politically outside of anything beyond white supremacy. That said, we need a local policy that strenuous and direct enough to be able to challenge the federal government and show them what the real intent of their this sort of deportation strategy is that you never get it. Thank you, Stephan. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is streaming chair and I'm a senior staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, which is headquartered in Los Angeles. So Long Beach is long overdue in passing a policy to protect immigrant residents who have been facing the threat of deportation since long before the current administration. ICE agents and. Deportations have been present in the city for years, terrorizing communities and separating families. So I applaud this effort to begin work on an ordinance. And some key. Points of an ordinance, I think, would be to make sure that information. Collected that's related to immigration status is not shared with ICE. Also making sure that local law. Enforcement is disentangled from. ICE and not spending local resources on immigration. Enforcement. We know that often people go to the city for critical services and we don't want people to feel deterred or scared. To access these services out of fear that somehow their personal information, including their status or their home addresses, will be shared with ICE. In addition. I wanted to stress that what you're undertaking is fully legal. As you know, the city has the discretion to decide how to use your local funds and also the discretion to decide how the local law enforcement resources are used. It's been. Jurisdictions that have decided to comply with ICE, that have. Been the ones that have faced lawsuits and often had to pay out settlements. So language should. Really craft. Policies that protect the dignity. And human rights of all its residents. And I encourage you to do so as. You'll be standing on the right side of history. Thank you. Thank you. Just 1/2, sir. We may have just lost quorum, so I just need to make sure we get it back. Give me one. Give me 1/2. Okay. Okay. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. And council members. I'm Bob Collegian. I live in the third district, but my church is two blocks north of First Congregational Church of Long Beach. And I am the chairman of the Board of Social Outreach, Outreach and Justice. We take care of a lot of the. Members of our local community. We offer afterschool tutoring and a summer day camp. We we have a charter school, lots of Hispanic kids in the area. And all I can say is that I'm really grateful and want to applaud your courageous and compassionate move today. And I want to also recognize and I hope you recognize that it's just a small thing that you're doing in some ways because it's giving some protection. But the work that we have to do, as many organizations here in the city is ongoing to create a rapid response teams, to educate the the undocumented community and so forth . And I want to us to both applaud the efforts of many organizations here in Long Beach who are going to carry this sanctuary movement clearly into the next few years because of the chaos in Washington. And I want to thank you very much again for voting for this this resolution. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. Can I can I give you this document before I start? Sure thing. The Political Ticker right over here. The attorney. Well, yeah. Well, we'll give it to the attorney. No problem. Well. Pretty much. I'm going to the mike so we can get a recording. I want you to start by saying. That a lot of these problems are side effects. The real problem that's not really being addressed, and that is that the cost of living is too much. So how do we get the cost of living down and how do we get more money into their pockets so they could spend it on your infrastructure and your business? Right. So how about we propose an idea on how we can make the common person pay to build their own home? Solving a lot of these issues all in one fell swoop. And making the cost of living zero. How is that? How is that wrong? How is that bad? And how is that not a solution to a lot of how these problems are coming up? And there's a lot of talk about buttons, right? And so how about this is a solution to not push that button or make it where we don't have to push the button? It's that simple. It's everything that we're doing already is just how we're doing it from this point on could be different. So what I'm proposing is a bill to allow that to happen. Is that okay with you guys? You can continue. All right. Well, first of all, you know, there's all this money getting thrown away into the garbage, literally by spending the money on getting rid of the trash. So how about we create a new industry on making the trash into the homes and making it safe and healthy for people because people are already doing it in parts of the world that aren't as fortunate as the United States. So how about we make jobs that way and we turn deserts into rainforests and make houses for people who can't pay for them for themselves? Right. But I'm sure that if there's an empty lot that's $3,000 a month, I'm sure 12 people could get together and pay that off every month. And if in two months you could finish the development, in six months, you could grow your food and look for zero. How does that not get money in everybody's pocket? And how is that not make everybody satisfied with how they're living? Because honestly, I'm not that rich and I'm pretty fucking happy. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello. Hello? Council members. Mayor. Some of you guys know me. Some of you guys don't. My name is Rashid Daka, and I'm a business owner. I live on the second district. I own a business with my family. I'm a barber. Our business has received salaries. Honor. Honor as California Business Day Award for our efforts with our community. I'm also a board member. Of the Long Beach Immigrants Rights Coalition, and my speech was a little different. But instead of I urge you, I thank you for seeing us, for. What we are. We are not a number or a word. We are people. We are sons, brothers, dads, moms, neighbors, coworkers, friends, and your local barber. Who, by the way, we employ as citizen. We are part of a big puzzle that makes Long Beach. Long Beach. Thank you for seeing who we are and how important it is to protect. Us, because protecting us is protecting lonmin's thinking. Thank you so much next week. Speaker, please. Good evening. Counsel folks. My name is Chris and I am a campus leader at Cal State Long Beach, and I'm here in support for the for a sanctuary city. The students of Cal State Long Beach have been advocating for undocumented students since way before the establishment of similar situation. We have been applying pressure to our ministration for a time. And resource center. As of now, the the funds that were allocated for DACCA students was not just out of the kindness of. The administration, but through the pressure. Of the students as we organize to inform the needs of undocumented students. As a student leader, we have been targeted, being privileged and documented here. I can only imagine the fear that undocumented folks experience on a daily basis. And I urge you to move forward in this ordinance. And thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Riley. Never Meet is. Many of you know me for many times that I have been speaking in this podium. But it's not a secret that I am an undocumented person. But at. That doesn't stop me to be helping my community, to be involved in my community, try to fight for truth and justice in this time. I'm not a scare about me. I know that I'm the comment, the person, but I'm not a scary mommy. I must care about those kids that sometimes has been talking with some of them and they say, I don't want to go to the school. I ask them Why? Because if I go to the school, when I come back, maybe my mom and my dad is not going to be at home because they are going to be. Take it. It makes me feel really, really sad seeing those kids, having those trauma kids who are in preschool practically three years and a half , something like that, because they hear they know kids are really, really smart. And I really here to us to protect these families. I work with community when I do door knocking and I tell them I'm working with housing issues. Do you have to report your landlord? You have to call this back. Don't you have to do this? You have to do that. And they say, no, I'm scared because the landlord to me that they going to send immigration, they're going to send ICE and they don't talk because the laws. Things that there is living in this condition. Living in this way. I. Because I am that position and in that situation I know how is that? But like I say, start thinking not only. And those parents that thinking on those kids are the future of this country. The young ones, those kids being charming their whole life be growing without their parents. Is what you earn in this city. We need to do something and we need to do it now. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. But just like we did for the other items. So now we'll go down to 2 minutes, please. All right. So good evening or good night, city council members. My name is Jerry Menez. I'm a resident of District two and I'm a youth organizer with the Filipino Migrants Center. I'm born and raised here in Long Beach, and my family came from the Philippines in the late eighties. And I'm also a son of a former undocumented mother. My mom has been in this country for over 24. Years as. A caregiver taking care of the elderly. She has always loved giving back to the elderly and making sure that they are well taken care of. Caregiving jobs are one of the only jobs available for Filipinos that are leaving the Philippines every single day just to provide a better life for their families. My mother has faced lots of struggles raising her two twin boys, and we wouldn't see her for months at a time since she lived and with the patients she experienced being taken advantage of by her employers because she was undocumented. Sometimes she she wouldn't even receive or check on time and wouldn't even get paid for all the hours she worked. Other times, employers call their racist names and degrading names. These are some of the things that undocumented caregivers like my mom go through, and they give everything to the elderly and to our communities. But in return, they're left in the dark and treated inhumanely. She's not the only one that I fear for. I also fear for the youth that I also work for with the Filipino Migrant Center. A majority of the youth are immigrants and some are undocumented and recipients, just like my mother. The youth and the families came to this country to have a better life. My youth fear for the families, friends and communities and even themselves. They may be deported. They have worked so hard to get an education in this country and now they and their loved ones can be deported tomorrow. I have learned so much from them because they are our future leaders in our communities. So we do need a local sanctuary policy and we want you all to vote yes to I mean, creating and drafting the sanctuary for all policy for Long Beach and for the city. So whether it's a mother, caregiver, doctor, recipient, youth, family. We're all people and we're not illegal. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Council members. My name is Christopher Chavez. I'm a resident of the sixth District. And first, I'd like to thank council members Gonzalez, Pierce, Yanga and Richardson for bringing this resolution. To the council. The proposed ordinance of the council. Even though that it appears that there is definitely a majority for this or that, I still feel that having this public comment is an. Important exercise to go through because it. Shows not only do you care about our undocumented residents, but it shows that Long Beach cares about our undocumented residents and this community stands for its people. I also. You know, I can't claim to be a representative of the undocumented community because I. Myself was born here. But I am most of the grandson of immigrants. I have many friends, many, many friends who I care deeply about who are under ICA. And personally, I feel that those people are more representative of America than any Nazi, any clan member, any writer, anybody who threatens the threatens the diversity of this country. So, again, members, I thank you for your work on this, and I look. Forward to seeing what Long Beach does to continue making me proud on this issue. Thank you very much. And go beach. Thanks, Chris. Always keeping that school spirit, which is good. Next speaker, please. Hi. Thank you for having me here. My name is yes. I am a staff member of Filipino Migrant Center, but I'm also a member of a grassroots migrants organization called Migrant. And I would like to share some of their stories with you because they got be here tonight. One of our members here in Long Beach works for as a caregiver. She's been working for an agency for more than three years and she's being paid $8.75 per hour, which is below minimum wage. We all know that. She asks for a raise, and when she did that, her employer told her, You don't have papers. Who are you to ask for a raise? She found out later that that employer reported her to ICE. She is a single mom and she is having a hard time finding a new place to work where she is safe and still being paid well. It's hard to find places like that just because of her status. We have another member and she's being paid $6.50 per hour as a caregiver as well. And she's undocumented as well, but she's too scared to file because her employer has too many connections and she's scared that her family will be divided because of that. Her family lives with six people in a one bedroom apartment. Because that's all they could afford. I have a lot more examples that I can bring up. It could be much worse, too. But my point is that there are people, employers out there who use the fear of undocumented immigrants to exploit them, abuse them, and get more money off of them. And what we're asking is actually quite the minimum. I feel like the California Values Act is getting watered down. So I'm really asking for a Long Beach to consider a much stronger just trust act. I mean, and so yeah, just use your position because you know, the more they're getting criminalized here, the more they're being abused. And you have this opportunity to make some change in that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Michael Sole, author. I live in the fifth District represented on the city council by Councilmember Stacy Mango. I am chair of the Social Justice Council at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach. One of the seven core principles of Unitarian Universalist churches affirms the democratic process. We believe that everyone should have a voice and a say in matters that affect them. It should therefore come as no surprise that we are nearly universally registered to vote, and we exercise that right and obligation in every district in Long Beach. Today I speak in favor of sanctuary for all, regardless of what our county, state and federal governments do. We need a local sanctuary policy to prevent future deportations by limiting information collection. Ending cooperation with ICE and ensuring city resources are not used for deporting people. Unitarian Universalists believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every person. That belief is unqualified. It does not assert that someone's worth is predicated on a piece of paper, the land of their birth, the language they speak, or the color of their skin. We believe in justice, equity and compassion, something that is sorely lacking in the policies being coming out of Washington. While we will work for comprehensive immigration legislation at the federal level and at the very least DOCA, we also expect our local communities to resist unethical and immoral treatment of human beings who are, as some have noted, Americans in every sense of the word except for a piece of paper. I urge you to support sanctuary for all. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, council members. My name is Donna Leone. I live in the seventh. District and I'm with the Democratic Socialists of America, Long. Beach. So I myself am. The child of. Immigrants. My parents were undocumented immigrants. They came to this country from Mexico. And for 23 years, they were undocumented. And for. 23 years, they lived in fear every day. That it would be the last day that me or my sister would see them. Me and my sister would come home from school. Afraid that we wouldn't see my parents again. And we need to make sure here in Long Beach that nobody ever needs to go through that again. Nobody deserves to live. In that fear. We don't we're not we're not a free country. If we can't just secure this basic right that people don't live in. Fear of being deported every day. We can't call ourselves a free country. We don't have even that. And ice, I want to. I can't emphasize this enough that ICE. Is a soulless agency. ICE doesn't care about human rights. They violated numerous, numerous human rights multiple times. And they don't deserve an ounce of any support of any resources from Long Beach. Forget that. They don't deserve any support. They don't. They shouldn't exist, period. But they do. So Long Beach needs to make sure that zero resources go to ice, because ice. Plain and simple, is going to terrorize our immigrant communities here in Long. Beach. So I want to thank you for your vote. I want to thank. You for helping us out. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Goodnight, Eden. To have us feel representative for Congressmember Alan Lowenthal. He wanted me to read this. Statement. About this item. I want to express my support for the Language Values Act of 2017, affirming the city's commitment to SB 54 and the city's continued support of the California Trust Act. I also encourage. The city to work with local immigrant rights organizations. To write and present a local policy that expands on SB 54. A city wide policy will help prevent future deportations by protecting the confidentiality of local immigrant residents and their information, and by ensuring that no city resources are used to create registries based on religious affiliation, immigration status, or any other protected class like gender, sexual orientation or race. The presence of federal immigration agents in our community has a negative impact in neighborhoods like Cambodia town and central Long Beach, where many immigrant families live. Living in constant fear of deportation has a tremendous impact. On the health of those immigrant families in our community. As you may know, I have. Been a longtime advocate of immigration reform and family reunification. Deportations destroy families and communities. Please support the Long Beach Values Act and protect these vulnerable communities. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name's Angela Perez. I'm a resident of the second district. Sorry, I'm. A little sick. As an undocumented student, we often say undocumented, unafraid. But I am here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But I am here to say that I am undocumented and very afraid. There is fear in our community. Fear of separation of families and the country we grew up in. My parents brought me here at. A very young. Age to. Show me the importance of education. They started juggling 2 to 3 jobs, each while raising four children. Them, themselves being undocumented, often. Faced a lot of discrimination and hatred for fighting for what. They believe. Then all they hoped. For is for their children to have access. To higher education. This nation was. Built on the values of freedom and. Strength. My parents, as well as myself, deserve to live in a community away from fear and deportation, as well as discrimination. As a doctor recipient, I may temporarily receive some protection, but I fear for the two people who raised me and taught me the strong values I hold and act on. For the community who showed me how to fight for my rights and for my undocumented sisters, brothers and parents. The time is now. To act for all undocumented communities. For the dreamers and their parents. For a safer space. A sanctuary city and inclusive city to all because we. Acknowledge hard work. And commitment. I urge you to make Long Beach Sanctuary City and continue to push for SB 54 and open the discussion. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Oh, thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much. Hi there. My name is Connor Locke. I'm a resident of the third district. Thank you, honorable mayor and council for being up this late. Thank you to all your staffs for being up this late and the staff that's here supporting as well. I remember the last time that this kind of resolution was here before the council. I was here then as well. I thought that was a late meeting. It's my first really lake meeting since I moved to Long Beach, and I remember that the four honorable members of council who proposed this resolution were in support of the original SB 54 as well. So thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales, Councilmember Pearce, Councilmember Urunga and Vice Mayor Richardson for supporting it the first time as well under the cover of the state advocating in favor of this passing the bill. It's much safer now for members of the Council to support such a such a message to the federal government supporting the citizens and the residents, whether they be citizens or not, whether they want to be or not of our city. And I thank you for for affirming this today. And I hope you continue to live up to that, that you decided to seek public service to serve those people who live here, those people who we have invested in and who will invest in our communities. So thank you. Please keep it up. And the next time a decision like this comes before you have the courage to support it the first time. Rather than waiting for someone else to give you cover. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, everyone. My name is Kieran Harper. I live in the third district and I'm here representing the Long Beach Area Peace Network. We want to thank you all for still being here and caring about this issue. We want to be on record in support of the expanded Long Beach version of SB 54. We want to state that we want local resources to build better lives, not to terrorize, and that just like no babies, a bastard. No child or adult is illegal, capable and corporate can cross borders easily and wreck wreck wreak havoc in communities. People are worth more than absurd, nasty laws. Thank you. So much. Next speaker, please. Hello again. I might not yell this time, but I can't make any promises. Again, for those who don't know me, my name is Nerida. I was born and raised in Long Beach and I live in the ninth District. I was born I would lived in the ninth district my whole life. And what I've seen growing up in Long Beach has never Long Beach has never felt safe for me, even though I love my city and I love the people that live here. Long Beach City Council has never represented me or my community. And I'll tell you why. Growing up. My. The worst thing somebody could go through, I couldn't document. My mom is undocumented and my sister is undocumented. I was born here. But to grow up with that fear that maybe. Would take my support system would be taken away from me is the worst thing you could live through. I grew up in Long Beach, where in Long Beach Boulevard and 53rd Street Ice Van showed up during the Bush times and took my neighbors took everybody that was there. We happened to get away and we ran and we told everybody and everybody here. But that's Long Beach. That's the Long Beach that I know. That's the Long Beach that I grew up in. And that's the Long Beach that still exists. We need a sanctuary city that represents us. I am tired of being called an immigrant. We are native to this land. This is our land. I am not an immigrant. My mom is not an immigrant. The border didn't cross. I didn't cross the border. The border crossed us. We have been here since the beginning of time. Go dig in the freeways. Go dig in the dirt. You'll find my ancestors there. I know that my people go to the museums. They look like me. We are native to this land. This sanctuary city is to protect the people that are. Native to here. We should not be kicked out because colonizers because people like Trump. Want us out. They're afraid that America is looking brown again. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Council members. Thank you for for this discussion. I really think that this this legislation this this ordinance doesn't go far enough. We need an ordinance that helps people register to become a regular real citizen workers. They come here and they're in the shadows. There's 800. 800,000 students that are in the shadows. There's 11 million people that are in the shadows because. They don't have a path to just becoming someone. They have names. They have they have mothers and daughters and sisters and everything else. And we just decide to call them aliens or decide call them whatever the colonizers want us to call them. When you say tomato, that I our God, that you're speaking that while you're speaking native language, that's from hearing me say Seattle, you're speaking native language. From here we are brown people. We were mixed. We're we're Caucasian. We're from everywhere. You guys clearly represent the. Diversity in this nation. And our poor. We we we exploit. Others, and we bring the price cheap here. Why not make them here and pay people here and have them register here instead of bringing basically allowing this illicit work to happen, instead of just letting them register and being real people. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And a christianson, my son George. Two horses, Christensen, Lakota, my daughter's Omaha. You've already met her fighting against having a whole bunch of white people dress up like Indians. A fun activity every year. Put an end to that. Thank you. With your help. Miss Price for that. My son was talking with somebody about immigration who was saying, you know, we got to get these people out. And he said so. When did the door close? Like, when did that clock stop? Like, did it stop? Like last year? Did it stop when your parents came in to stop 100 years ago? When did it start? When do you get to say you're proud to be an immigrant but you don't want any more immigrants? When do you get to say that? Because it's interesting about time. You know, if you like I talked to a lady who doesn't want in Stacey's district, she doesn't want a five storey building on her corner and she blames it on these Mexicans coming up here. And I said, well, we're pretty far apart on that issue since my kids are Native American. And I believe that Native American people have been here a long time. And Native American is America is a European name, but indigenous is indigenous. India, China and India. Los Indios. They Christopher Columbus called them the indigenous people with God. Maybe. Who knows? He was lost. Still is. But the reality is, okay, I've only got 32 seconds, so I'm going to change the topic. But just just think about that. When you sit and make a law, we're still asking to make laws in spite of all the horrific laws, laws, you know, removing Indians, massacring its in the state, massacring Indians by law. So we're asking for another law. I'm all for it. But when you're making this law, I'd like to turn to the prosecutors in the room, Mr. Parkyn and Ms.. Price, and ask their special help in changing a pattern of our police, which is to overcharge everybody that gets arrested with a felony and then let them plea out to a misdemeanor. When you're charged with a felony, sometimes you get deported. This is a pattern. It's not prosecutor pattern, it's habit. It's our pattern. So let's change that pattern. Let's put a real hold on overcharging. People are charging them at all, really, especially if they're undocumented. Can the government next speaker, please? When does not is what. It's not just we're going to do the double the tempo and put them in double time. When it's not just an hour, I'll call Robert Garcia equals the hell is the personnel. Number is loaders Navarro DICKERSON is sooner Euna Lee literally be known as L.A. because like he Lagardere is he enters Wednesday and Thursday listing the legacy Angola Atlantic as a key and a presentation. Let me congratulate you on the icon and the fake communities organizations estoy para appoggiatura la comunidad immigrant. There can be a body that maybe an Iraqi immigrant they love a scene to San Quentin and lost an acquaintance but okay you always to your point but I guess was the Rachel's Santos but that was reporter for them believes in needle integrity that for families it's almost a parental support position is what case was now focused on Randle get less familiar so this integrin what if I were both a parakeet? Long Beach said I want us to that Santuario What is the madrassas? Yes support your is the competency on your Lisbon vigor aluminum. Mr. Mayor. Robert Garcia. Council members and staff. Good evening. My name is. Lourdes Navarro Dixon. And I'm a member of the Church of Divine Nazareth. That if you don't know Sereno, it's located at 600 East Atlantic and Fifth Street. And I'm here representing my congregation. I live in the Second District. I'm here representing my congregation and Echo, which is interfaith community organization. I'm here to support the immigrant community. My father also came as an immigrant in the fifties around 1950, and I'm asking that their rights be respected and that they can live without fear and insecurity. Please, we need the. Deportations. To stop. And this is causing families to break up. Please vote for Long Beach to become a sanctuary city. Thank you very much for your support and your understanding. May God bless you and shine his light on you. Just let just thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is Kevin Yeager and I'm a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a District one resident. Tonight, we're talking about people living in our city, working in our community, in our hotels and our port, making Long Beach into the beautiful city that it is. Despite this, many of these people live under threat of arrest, after which they could be sent to a for profit detention center, subjected to physical and sexual assault, and finally separated from their family and community. For many, the only community they've ever known leaving one's home and relocating to another country is an extremely difficult process. But we know many of the reasons why people are forced to do this. We know that many of our community members come here from Central America or Southeast Asia, fleeing conditions that the U.S. has wrought on their home countries, be they economic policies, military intervention or natural disasters supercharged by climate change, by Western countries emissions. So all this to say, it has always been and will always be the case that people are forced to migrate. We will always have many neighbors who are undocumented. And while we recognize that this racist and class's immigration system is largely outside of Long Beach is control, there are still steps that we can legally take to protect our most vulnerable communities by ending cooperation with ICE and ensuring that city resources do not aid in immigration enforcement. We can help protect we can help prevent some future deportations and help keep some families together. So I urge the city council to stand up for the dignity of everyone who calls Long Beach home tonight. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. I'm going to make this quick. Our animal mayor and council members, thank you for being here this late. My name is Krystal Vasquez and I live in the third district. Miss Price, I am an alumni I call State Long Beach and a member of the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, which you all know. But most importantly, I am undocumented. And I want to thank you, Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez, for putting this in the borough, as called sponsors of the center city. It is recognized and sincerely appreciated. I am here tonight presenting this for the hundreds of thousands of Thacher recipients whose heart sank after the Jeff Sessions announcement two weeks ago. But I'm also here to represent my people people like me, like my mom and my dad and my two brothers, both of whom were deported. It is something that most of you have never experienced. All of you have heard about this, but it's just something that it is taken away. It's part of you from. A part of your history and part of your own. And they deserve their dignity and justice to know that we are here. For four months, we debated this entry policy policy. But our committee cannot afford more time. While you debate, our families are fighting this a partizan machine. In the last eight months alone, I have seen my father's business impacted his loss workers through the petition machine. And also I stood by my mother. Who? Bears the emotional burden of the situation. This is a way of life that is unjust and unbearable. To top it off, I haven't seen my older brother in over five years because of our immigration status and his birthday is this weekend. So I sent it as a testament to the relentless work of undocumented people have conducted. We have risked our livelihood, the safety of our families, and we have been on the front lines of this movement. And now we need you to be as brave and courageous. Immigrant community. And this is a lot of it. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. As my colleague researchers said. My name is Jonathan Solorzano and I am a resident of the ninth District and also a lifelong resident of the city of Long Beach. I wasn't planning on speaking, but I did hear. In the beginning that you were mentioning SB 54 and how we should follow state law. And I'm here to just point out a few things that are that can be problematic with that. We all heard of the passage of SB 54 out of the assembly and heading to the governor's desk. So this hasn't been signed into law yet. So we still need some work that we need to get done as far as advocacy efforts go. So for everybody out there, please call the governor and let him know we want SB 54 passed. However, with SB 54, two things that I want to point out, the biggest loss that came out of this bill as far as the amendments go is that the sharing of databases is still allowed. And this has been one of the biggest deep water causes of deportations that exist right now in the state and on a federal level. The biggest walk away that that came out of this is that local, local cities can adopt higher standards, and that's in the language. So we urge you to please take leadership and make the sanctuary lobby's policy a stronger policy that we can work with. We are looking forward to beginning those conversations with the city leadership and people like Jose Alvarez, who we all heard about last year, would actually still be here if there was a sanctuary policy in place. Unfortunately, he isn't. And because of that, there has been you know, it's been a helter skelter situation for him and his family. So please help us help people like Jose Alvarez, his family, and pass a sanctuary policy that benefits not just the DOCA students and the Dreamers, which is very easy to get caught up in. But the people who are most at risk of deportations, of people with felony convictions, the people who are most at risk of being deported. We need to help these people and we need to help them now. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. Before me. Just make sure the speakers list looks like we're. We're close. I know we're going to have room. The Chico will be last on behalf of Janice Hahn, but I guess for everyone else, the speakers list is closed. Gentlemen, the back will be the last speaker. So thank you. Actually, Mr. Colby. The last speaker. After the gentleman in the back? Yes. Hello. Members of council. My name is Betto. My name is Norberto Lopez. But I go by Betto and I've been living in this country for the past 22 years. I came to this country at the age of one. I just recently graduated from Cal State. Long Beach did five years there. My goal is to return to grad school and become a counselor that doesn't discriminate folks based on status or religion or race. Right. I want equal fare for everybody. On behalf of the Sanctuary Long Beach campaign, I would like to present 622 postcards signed by Long Beach residents. And every single count in every single district. For the past five months, we have collected these postcards and heard story after story of people who have been living in fear. We have also heard stories about how taking a stand to in cooperation with ICE locally can help improve people's lives. People like Josette Alvares live, right? So I was a student during the time that his deportation took place. Right. And having to confront CSU or be police the chief and tell him, you know, that's unfair. What you did right otherwise and you did it is still part of your responsibility. And the fact that his family had to go through that trauma is very heartbreaking on behalf of all these people who signed cards, shared the stories and couldn't stay here. Late this morning, we ask you to support your local policy and vote yesterday. Thank you. Thank you. Can you also get the clerk to grab the card so we can take those? Thank you very much. Right? Yes. Next speaker. So good morning. One of the asked. My name is Maria. Once again, I am like a. Whirlpool of emotions right now. Obviously in the last month my life has been turned upside down and then right side up and then upside down and then right side up. And pretty much people play with you because you're undocumented. And it's not cool. But today I am glad to say that I would like to see a sanctuary policy. It will happen. But I'm also here to say that my family did face the deportation. My older brother was a victim of the present, the education and prison pipeline, and he was deported my first semester at Cal State Long Beach. I since then I filed probably before graduation like eight incompletes. I didn't know my brother's deportation was going to affect me the way it did, the way that it made me become a second mother to my brother and sister. But I do realize that my brother deserved a second chance. And I'm here for him today to tell you all that our education system failed him. Our legal system failed him, our immigration system failed him. He went to court. He got he got free and then was handed over to ice immediately. So I know that these things happen. I saw it. My family felt it. My family lived it. We continue to live it. We continue to support the families. But now we need to we need to start dividing communities. We need to stop using this narrative of dreamers. We are all dreamers. My mom's a dreamer. My brother's a dreamer. And we're all going to fight for something that protects us all. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Everyone stay calling. Clancy. Wylie Mosley. Good morning. When you see us. Oglala Lakota. Michiko. Michiko. No o'clock. Well, I'm here to let you know if you want to make America great again. Well. Take it back, you know, to real immigrants out there. This is our land, the great Turtle Island from Alaska all the way to Argentina. It's our lands. We are many nations as one. So I don't consider my brothers and sisters from the South to be immigrant. Why? Because she got a great culture out there. I have four years here. You see? Missing out on a bloody Spaniard, complimenting your own blood. Now what? So with that I would say classic asthmatic milk. To all my brothers and sisters that wants really to help me out here. We also do support them from each reservations out there. We all have banks out there for them without even asking IDs. We don't even ask in Social Security numbers. Our whole method called Yahtzee on my relations. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, Bear Garcia, members of the city council, actually. Morning. I'm sure this is a record. I just also want to congratulate the council today and thank each and every one of you for your leadership and really putting protections in place. To reduce the stress in our community. Because I can tell you there is big time stress among our residents and youth. Every day we're processing applications and answering telephones and and this is all we hear. So I just want to applaud the city council and thank you so much for your support and putting protection in place. So we ensure that we're not criminalizing our. Families, our youth. Heads of household people who are really. Trying to do a good job and. Live as families here in our city. And also, I'm looking very forward to working with the city manager and the Office of Equity. As you know, our organization has been doing. Services for Latinos here in the. City of Long Beach for over 20 years. And so, you know, we. Still have not there has. Been over. 100 years of immigration here, and we still haven't immigrated. We're still living in poverty. We still. Are living in silos and really need. To focus on immigrant integration. So this is where we're really. Excited into working, you know, in partnership with the city and really integrating our communities into. The workforce development system, into our health system, into our neighborhood. System, into civic engagement and ensuring that, you know, they do have a voice and and that they're, you know, being consumers and they're being considered in affordable housing and being able to be homeowners in our city. So, you know, really looking forward to that. The needle. Definitely has to move for a lot. Of our Latinos living here in the city of Long Beach and so very proud. This is, as we know, welcoming New Americans week. We'll be celebrating on this Saturday, conducting applications for naturalization in Dakar. We look forward to hosting you, Mr. Mayor, at our at our welcoming event this Saturday. But again, just very proud of this council today, even though it's in the wee hours of the morning. And we all need to be out here and everybody that came in and provided their voice on this very important issue because it really affects us all. I heard all the council members say how they have, you know, students and dreamers while. Organizations do, too. And so, you know, we're working very hard. We're ensuring their. Protection, their safety, their. Education, really looking out for their economic development. And so we're doing our part and you guys are doing yours. And truly appreciate. It. Thank you so much. Just thank you. Speaker. When was the last? Good morning. And we keep it short. It's been a long day. Long night. I'll be honest, I'm not even from Long Beach. I'm from Gardena. But I came to support a friend. And I must say that as much as, you know, the son of an immigrant father, I can't imagine the fears that really run through their minds. But I'm really coming here as someone as someone who's coming from Cal State Dominguez Hills. I recently heard that Cal State Long Beach allocated certain funds for their doctor students. I wish I could see that at Dominguez Hills. I just wanted to really give you guys that shout out. And I. I know that it's not something that's easy. You know, I'm working with with the population, a population like that. I'm a part of an organization on at Dominguez Hills called the Male Success Alliance. And we are our goal is to improve the access, retention and graduation rates of young men of color. And that's something that's really big with a lot of the a lot of the middle school and high schoolers that I'm a mentor to. A lot of the fears, a lot of the their concerns. But in terms of what I really want to just really thank you guys is that the allocation of funds from Cal State Long Beach to their students, which is something that I wish Cal State Dominguez Hills would really pick up and get the message on. But thank you. Good night. Thank you. The president of council at the MIGA Sells is a Long Beach resident, so we'll have to let him know. Next Speaker Bass always getting that plug in her. Linda Chico Field deputy for L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn and I have a letter to read into record. Dear Mayor and Honorable City Council. Among many things, the City of Long Beach is revered for its diversity and inclusivity. It is a reflection of the mosaic of people unique to Los Angeles County, including a vibrant immigrant community. I commend you for your efforts to strengthen policies to protect all your residents through the Long Beach Values Act and support your resolution to the laws adopted in Senate Bill 54, as well as directing the Long Beach Office of Equity to partner with local immigrant rights organizations and educational institutions. I am proud to have coauthored an item at the county level that will also strengthen protections and increase resources for undocumented community. This is a very personal issue for me, as I also have a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient working in my office. He is a hard worker and does an exceptional job of assisting our residents in need. I have committed to him and to all other DOCA recipients that I will do everything in my power to help them continue leading productive lives free from fear of deportation. Here in the United States, the only country most of them have ever known. I strongly encourage the Long Beach City Council to make the same commitment to protect their residents by passing the Long Beach Values Act. Sincerely, Janice Hahn, Supervisor, Fourth District. Thank you. And Ms.. Chicka Pink. I know, I know. Part of the agenda item is to work with the county we've been talking to, to Janice about the legal defense fund locally and how the county can be a partner in that. So please thank the supervisor for her support on that. No see, no other public comment. We're going to go back. Councilman Gonzales. Any other additional comments? I just wanted to say thank you all again. I know we've been saying it's very late and you all have stuck through the whole night. So really appreciate the comments. I look forward to starting the discussions this week with all of you about how we can strengthen this. Thank you. And this will be and this will be back. Mr.. This will be back when Mr. Weston was sitting with the Office of Equity back to the Council in 60 days. Is that correct? Okay. With that Members, please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Motion carries. Believe it or not, we have a full agenda which will now start. So we actually have two hearings which we have to do. I'm going to encourage us to, beyond the hearings, maybe move everything to the next agenda. But we do need to do the hearings. So and if there's people here for any other items, we should get to those out of respect for folks that are here. So can we hear the next the hearing? I think I'm going to not sleep for the breakfast in the morning.