AGENDA
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MAYWOOD CITY COUNCIL AND
THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE MAYWOOD COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2026 AT 5:30 PM
Maywood City Council Chambers
4319 E. Slauson Avenue, Maywood, CA 90270
www.cityofmaywood.com
I. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
II. CITY OFFICIALS
MAYOR
Heber Marquez
MAYOR PRO TEM
Jaime Flores
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Mayra Aguiluz
Eddie De La Riva
Frank Garcia
CITY CLERK
Jennifer E. Vasquez
CITY TREASURER
Jennifer E. Vasquez
CITY MANAGER
Jennifer E. Vasquez
CITY ATTORNEY
Roxanne Diaz
III. MEETING PROCEDURES
THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN PERSON.
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IV. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBERS AND STAFF COMMENTS
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VI. CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed under CONSENT CALENDAR are considered to be routine and can be acted on by one roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless members of the City Council request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion or action.
1. CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTING RESOLUTION NO. 6446, A
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAYWOOD,
CALIFORNIA, CALLING FOR AN END TO LAWLESS ICE AND
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ENFORCEMENT SURGES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND URGING CONGRESS TO WITHHOLD
FUNDING FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
WITHOUT MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT GUARDRAILS
VII. ADJOURNMENT - The next Adjourned Meeting of the Maywood City Council is February 25, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.
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AGENDA REPORT
CITY OF MAYWOOD
AGENDA ITEM NO. 1.
DATE: February 10, 2026
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: JENNIFER VASQUEZ, CITY MANAGER
BY: MIGUEL LEON, DEPUTY CITY CLERK/ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTING RESOLUTION NO. 6446, A RESOLUTION OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, CALLING FOR AN END
TO LAWLESS ICE AND CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ENFORCEMENT
SURGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND URGING CONGRESS TO WITHHOLD FUNDING FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WITHOUT
MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT GUARDRAILS
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council consider the adoption of Resolution No. 6446 and direct the City Clerk to transmit the Resolution to its California Congressional Delegation.
BACKGROUND:
Federal immigration enforcement is carried out by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Following recent federal funding and enforcement actions, ICE and CBP have increased enforcement activity in several cities across the country, including operations in residential areas and other community settings. During this period, enforcement actions near schools and other sensitive locations, as well as conditions in immigration detention facilities, have raised concerns among community members and local governments. In 2025, Congress approved $170 billion in funding for immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation activities, which has supported expanded enforcement and detention capacity nationwide.
DISCUSSION:
The proposed Resolution allows the City Council to express its position on current federal immigration enforcement activity and related funding decisions. The Resolution calls for an end to ICE and CBP enforcement surges and urges Congress to withhold additional funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security unless meaningful and significant guardrails are included.
Additionally, it outlines guardrails related to enforcement practices, immigration detention standards, and accountability, including the role of state and local jurisdictions in oversight and coordination. The Resolution also calls on Congress to reconsider existing DHS funding levels and to consider potential structural changes to the department intended to strengthen accountability.
If adopted, the Resolution would direct the City Clerk to transmit the City Council’s position to the California congressional delegation.
LEGAL REVIEW:
The City Attorney has reviewed this report.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact associated with the adoption of this Resolution.
ATTACHMENT(S)
1. Resolution No. 6446
RESOLUTION NO. 6446
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAYWOOD,
CALIFORNIA, CALLING FOR AN END TO LAWLESS ICE AND CBP ENFORCEMENT
SURGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND URGING CONGRESS TO WITHHOLD FUNDING FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WITHOUT
MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT GUARDRAILS
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, excessively using force, including in some cases, killing 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 Patrol (“CBP”) have violently arrested civilians, including U.S. citizens, and deployed chemical weapons without warning in residential areas, harming school children and local law enforcement, and WHEREAS, from September 2025 through January 2026, immigration agents have shot at least nine individuals, including three who died as a result, Alex Petti, a U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis, Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three in Minneapolis, and Silverio Villegas González, a father of two, in Chicago, and
WHEREAS, immigration agents have terrorized and abducted students on their way to and from school, unleashed chemical agents on students and staff on school grounds, leading to children being too afraid to attend school, which is a right guaranteed to all students in all 50 states, and
WHEREAS, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (“OBBBA”) gave ICE and CBP $170 billion for anti-immigrant enforcement, detention, and deportation at the expense of urgent needs in our community, including housing and healthcare, and WHEREAS, conditions in immigration detention facilities are rapidly deteriorating with dangerous overcrowding 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;
WHEREAS, the immigration system is a civil system not a criminal system and immigration detention is intended to be a non-punitive system.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MAYWOOD DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The council calls for an end to Border Patrol deployments and an end to ICE and CBP’s lawless surges in cities across the country that are undermining public safety.
Section 2. The council calls on the United States Congress to not provide any additional funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") without including meaningful and significant guardrails to rein in the agency and how it operates in communities.
Section 3. The council expresses support for guardrails to be included in any funding bill for DHS that would:
a) End lawless enforcement including by requiring DHS to get a warrant, stop using masked agents for immigration enforcement actions, stop the targeting of people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension, and prohibiting enforcement at sensitive locations like daycares and schools, houses of worship, and hospitals;
b) End detention abuses by ending the use of private, for-profit detention prisons, prohibiting funding for facilities that threaten the health, safety, or due process rights of detained people, and restoring access to bond hearings;
c) Preserve the ability of local and state jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute potential crimes and use of excessive force incidents. Require that evidence is preserved and shared with jurisdictions. Require the consent of States and localities to conduct large-scale operations outside of targeted immigration enforcement.
Section 4. The council calls on Congress to make deep and meaningful cuts to the $170 billion in funding given to DHS in the OBBBA and redirect those funds to urgent needs like housing and healthcare.
Section 5. The council calls on Congress to deliberate a plan to restructure DHS to bring more accountability to this sprawling agency, to ensure that the Department’s essential national security and public safety functions, including cyber security and emergency management, can be separated from immigration enforcement, and to completely rebuild immigration enforcement agencies from the ground up to stop the culture of lawlessness and ensure guardrails and accountability.
Section 6. The clerk of the council is directed to send a copy of this motion to each member of California congressional delegation.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 10th day of February 2026. _________________________
Heber Marqez, Mayor
ATTEST:
___________________________
Miguel Leon, Deputy City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
___________________________
Roxanne Diaz, City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF MAYWOOD
I, Miguel Leon, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Maywood, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 6446 was adopted at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Maywood held on the 10th day of February 2026 by the following vote:
AYES:
NAYES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAINED:
_______________________________
Miguel Leon, Deputy City Clerk