City of Camarillo
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 01:45 AMPUBLIC COMMENTS
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Meeting Date Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Agency City Council
Item Type Item Not On Agenda
Item Number or Subject CPD | VCSO Supporting ICE in Our County-Spencer Richey Position Oppose
Comments Camarillo City Council,
Recently someone from the local group VcDefensa recorded a police officer | sheriff's deputy here in Camarillo outright admitting upon being asked that the Camarillo Police
Department (CPD) | Ventura County Sheriff's Office (VCSO) has been accompanying ICE vehicles to protect them (from
who?...people wanting to get the ICE agents' identities they're too afraid to give for some reason?) while they snatch up OUR highly important and valuable agricultural workforce in their horrific refinement of themselves as the American Gestapo.
I'll say that again: we are DIRECTLY PAYING FOR ICE TO
BRUTALLY HURT OUR OWN TOWN AND COUNTY via our local
taxes paying a police force that we know is actively helping ICE by protecting them.
First and foremost, we already have VERY firm evidence that some non-ICE agents are completely concealing themselves to accurately disguise themselves as ICE agents and thus
completely get away with committing all sorts of kidnapping, rape, and sexual assault of people.
1 Seems kind of counter-intuitive for me to have to pay for a local police force who's actually making our city and county LESS safe by creating an environment that serves the ability to commit crimes without even being questioned to non-state agents on a silver platter, don't you think?
To address the elephant in the room, I also NEVER consented to having MY local tax dollars via funding collaborationist local law enforcement pay for this MASSIVELY dangerous expansion of the US into a police state where shadowy unidentifiable agents violently, WITHOUT CLEAR REASON BEYOND "tHeY lOoKeD
IlEgAl", mind, snatch people off the streets, out of their workplaces, and even at their important appointments like getting much-needed medical care and, get this, DOING
MANDATORY CHECK-INS WITH IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES
and put them into also-unidentifiable vehicles to cart them off to ghastly detention centers where multiple people have ALREADY died to due to how dire the conditions are getting in these places and, get this, PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO
OUTRIGHT BE REFUSED RELEASE EVEN IF THEIR PLAN UPON
RELEASE IS VERY FIRMLY TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN RAPID
DEPORTATION OUT OF THE US.
And, again, ICE is KNOWN to be doing this to even US citizens and others who are legally here under the "tHeY lOoKeD iLeGaL" excuse without bothering to ask ANYONE first if that is actually the case, only ever releasing a FEW people if enough people raise the world's hugest fuss over it, which is DEFINITELY setting the stage for them to start DELIBERATELY rounding up US citizens they don't like, such as elderly and disabled people who are deemed to be "too much of a drain" on society by requiring "too much" in the way of safety net programs or taxpayer-funded medical care.
It'll be any day now that US citizens end up dead at the hands of ICE via being killed by the brutal conditions inside their detention centers, if it of course hasn't ALREADY happened and we just don't know about it yet.
In other words, we people of Camarillo are via our local taxes funding collaborationist law enforcement agencies outright paying for ICE to, unless completely stopped SOON, one day round up OUR OWN ELDERLY NEIGHBORS as well as all of our OTHER neighbors who are deemed unfit for the MAGA state and kill them by sending them to these horrid detention centers where prisoners aren't even getting enough food or water, let alone basic medical care.
Perhaps more importantly than that for people who disagree with me on if immigrants should be in the US without legal papers formally granting them permission to and if ICE is really going to deliberately do those sorts of things to US citizens if allowed, I also for one NEVER consented to having MY local tax dollars pay for the destruction of MY local economy via our police collaborating with them, and yes, destroying our local 2 economy's EXACTLY what these ICE raids are doing because there's been SIGNIFICANT media coverage of the fact that our local farmers, our venerated local farmers who are much of the reason why we're still surrounded by such lovely farms here instead of becoming a traffic-choked concrete jungle like the San Fernando Valley's been for years, are down literally 70% of their typical workforce now because, guess what, they haven't been able to offer wages high enough to attract enough people who were born here and honestly thanks to our aging
population and inability to attract or retain abled-enough younger workers we don't HAVE enough US-born people to
power our agriculture with their physical labor anyway.
Our agricultural products not only HUGELY fund and power our local economy because the rest of the country and much of the rest of the WORLD happily pays our local farmers for them, but notice how I said "the rest of the country" in that.
We literally feed the rest of the country.
If even "just" 20-30% of our crops are rotting in the fields and orchards due to not being harvested in time, let alone the whopping 70% of local crops we're looking at this happening to due to that being how much of our agricultural workforce we've lost due to ICE being allowed to round up whoever here they don't like with impunity, that's not only horrible for us economically but the sheer lack of produce and other
agricultural products across the rest of the country IS going to directly cause severe shortages and severe price spikes that WILL result in many Americans outright losing their ability to stay properly fed for who knows how long.
And Trump and friends are ABSOLUTELY banking on this
becoming our reality because they know DAMN well they'll get way more people to serve their own neighbors and family members to ICE on a silver platter if there's a promise of being able to feed themselves or their families that they're not going to find elsewhere.
So, again, THROUGH OUR LOCAL TAXES FUNDING A
COLLABORATIONIST POLICE DEPARTMENT WE ARE DIRECTLY
FUNDING THE CREATION OF THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH
EVEN MILLIONS OF US CITIZENS WILL LIKELY END UP KILLED
BY ICE IF ICE IS ALLOWED TO KEEP DOING WHAT THEY'RE
DOING FOR LONG ENOUGH.
Simulteaneously, the drastic and severe loss of income from not having anywhere near enough agricultural products to sell in the first place due to the loss of 70% of their workforce IS going to sooner or later force our local farmers to sell their farms because farming's extremely expensive as it is to the point that between all their costs for equipment, supplies, and yes, labor even at the low price point often-undocumented immgrants will work for, farmers do NOT as a whole have any real cushion against financial devastation that cause the loss of their farms. 3 And who typically gets the farms these smaller farmers lose? Either megacorporations or developers who often get HUGE paydays from the US federal government, including for
operating private prisons and other carceral facilities.
So, yeah, ICE is by mass-incarcerating our agricultural workforce also directly causing the death of smaller American farms like the ones that heavily populate Camarillo and Ventura County.
I don't know about you, but I'd REALLY much rather not also be paying for ICE to destroy the very local landscapes I love and take pride in via my local taxes being used to fund a
collaborationist law enforcement force that will cause our farms to get paved over or turned into more ugly and deadly ICE detention facilities-concentration camps, really-that'll likely soon enough use their prisoners as literal slave labor in an evil attempt at furnishing enough labor to prevent the worst food shortages resulting from US farms having their workforce incarcerated by ICE due to how our 13th Amendment explicitly permits slavery of incarcerated people.
In short, you are all playing a VERY politically dangerous game (as in, you're seriously risking your future abilities to be elected or appointed anywhere again in the future at best and the willingness of Camarillans to bother to pay local taxes at all at worst) by using OUR tax dollars to destroy OUR little slice of paradise by funding a police force who's actively helping out ICE in their reign of terror both here and across the rest of the country, ESPECIALLY since I'm, believe it or not, not REMOTELY alone in being a Camarillan who despises this.
We also need WAY firmer laws and measures implemented and actively enforced to actually help protect Camarillans and other people from being imprisoned by ICE, but the VERY huge
concern right now is that our local taxes are funding an openly collaborationist police force who's literally and openly helping ICE destroy our county and everything that makes it wonderful.
Sincerely,
Spencer Richey
Highly Concerned Lifelong Camarillan
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