City of Madera holds ''Welcoming City'' discussion

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Madera is considering caller ways to amusement enactment for its migrant community.

On Wednesday night, assembly members volition sermon a solution that would state Madera a "Welcoming City" for all.

"What we privation to bash is convey the connection that you should not person to fearfulness successful the City of Madera instrumentality enforcement," said Santos Garcia, a erstwhile Mayor of Madera during the archetypal Trump presidency.

Back successful 2018, Madera leaders voted connected a akin solution declaring the City a refuge for its undocumented migrant community, but Garcia said the existent governmental climate, with its rising deportations and fear, motivated this caller step.

"We privation to state again, arsenic we did successful 2018, that Madera is simply a welcoming city. That we are not going to beryllium enforcing migration instrumentality here," said Santos.

The City's docket point points retired ICE operates independently from the section constabulary department, and Madera does not person resources to collaborate oregon stock accusation with ICE unless determination is simply a nonstop and contiguous nationalist information threat.

"Our constabulary section is not going to spell aft folks that are undocumented and that's the important connection we request to drive," said Santos, a long-time Madera resident.

But immoderate different California cities are sending a antithetic message. Just past month, each 7 metropolis assembly members successful Huntington Beach voted unanimously to go a non-sanctuary city.

"We request each instrumentality enforcement effort, whenever called upon, whether it beryllium warring terrorists, whether it beryllium warring purse snatchers, oregon immoderate it is, we person to person each law-enforcement instrumentality to champion service our citizens," said Pat Burns, the Mayor with the City of Huntington Beach.

"Huntington Beach and Madera are 2 full antithetic communities. We are a farming moving community," said Santos. "We request to support our workplace workers present due to the fact that we don't privation to spot much shortages."

Santos citing the precocious terms of goods and products including eggs. He explained if determination are wide deportations, that volition chopped into productivity.

Other alternate options the assembly could see is whether to reaffirm the Dream Act and DACA, impulse the president's caller enforcement order, oregon telephone for a moratorium connected national migration raids.

ABC30 did petition remark from section instrumentality enforcement. Both Madera Police and the Sheriff's Office declined to comment.

The adjacent metropolis assembly gathering is scheduled for February 19.

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