This message is from outside the City email system. Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources. green light, ICE is effectively operating as the American Gestapo for non-white people in this country. When we couple ICE's deep, flagrant racism with masking/concealment policies, we have a "law enforcement" agency that is made up of people who outwardly hate brown-skinned folks and get to hide any and all of its actions--like verbally attacking and kidnapping and torturing brown-skinned people--behind a shield of anonymity.
I am Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), so I will never truly understand or agree with the US' absurd immigration policies--nobody can be "illegal" on stolen and illegally occupied land. But I am also a brown-skinned person who lives in San Jose, and although I may be a US citizen, I know I'm at a real risk of being targeted by ICE, like my friends and colleagues and neighbors who are similarly not white. Our skin color and the language(s) we speak and the type of jobs we work and our immigration statuses ARE NOT CRIMES. We should not be in fear of masked agents hunting us down and kidnapping us like we are criminals. I therefore implore the Rules Committee to approve this No Secret Police Memo and take real steps to establish local ordinance that bars the use of facial coverings/identity concealment (save for the few examples that were outlined in the memo) by law enforcement. I'd like to also add a request that whatever formal ordinance is pursued, that it includes clear and escalating penalties for violation so that the ordinance has some teeth to it.
Thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration of my testimony. Please do the right thing and approve this memo so that we can make San Jose a safer community.
Respectfully,
Kylie B.
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