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A MOTION related to current federal immigration enforcement practices and directing the clerk of the council to send a copy of this motion to the members of Washington's congressional delegation representing King County.
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WHEREAS, the Trump Administration's assault on communities in the name of immigration enforcement is eroding our constitutional rights and endangering residents, and
WHEREAS, immigration authorities are using increasingly dangerous tactics, such as engaging in unprovoked violence, pointing guns at civilians, and deploying chemical weapons, and
WHEREAS, in multiple cities, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have violently arrested civilians, including U.S. citizens, and deployed chemical weapons without warning in residential areas, harming school children and even local law enforcement, and
WHEREAS, from September 2025 through January 2026, immigration agents have shot twelve individuals, including three who died as a result: Silverio Villegas Gonz?lez, a father of two, in Chicago; Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, in Minneapolis; and Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and federal employee who served as an intensive care nurse for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, also in Minneapolis, and
WHEREAS, conditions in immigration detention facilities are rapidly deteriorating with facilities dangerously overcrowded and detained individuals and advocates reporting medical neglect, substandard food, inadequate access to clean water, and overuse of solitary confinement, and
WHEREAS, about ninety percent of people being detained are in for-profit facilities, which have a long record of cutting corners on essential services to reap profits, and
WHEREAS, since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, an unprecedented thirty-seven people have died in the custody of ICE, including several deaths that may have been preventable, and
WHEREAS, the federal imm...

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