HOW DO WE PLAN TO STOP IT?

We will apply public pressure on the Sheriff’s Office till it voluntarily ceases its collaboration with ICE, like many other County Sheriffs have, or through pressure on the Marin Board of Supervisors, which has influence over the Sheriff's budget. Both the Sheriff and the Board of Supervisors have been shockingly resistant to changing their practices in the face of all the tragedy that has been heaped upon the American people.

That is why we need you, your voice, and your outrage. Together, we can make it abundantly clear that ignoring their electorate is not an option.

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Below is the resolution we have drafted for the Marin Board of Supervisors that we want added to the agenda and approved.

ANNOTATED RESOLUTION OF THE MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 

Commitment to Cease and Prevent the Use of County Resources to Facilitate Federal Mass Deportation Efforts 

WHEREAS, the President has promoted false claims of rampant criminality to justify a massive,  unlawful, xenophobic, and race-based deportation campaign that is fueling a growing constitutional and  humanitarian crisis in Marin County and across the nation; and

    • The purpose of the federal mass deportation campaign—targeting immigrants of color for deportation, rather than immigrants from “places like Norway” whom the President deems more  desirable—is an intolerable affront to U.S. constitutional and democratic norms and values;  

    • The administration claims that it is targeting “terrorists”, “spies”, and “violent criminals”, but the  evidence shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been detaining immigrants  with no criminal record at staggering rates (in 2025, the total number of ICE detentions rose by  75% while the number of ICE detainees with no criminal record increased by 2,450%); there has  been an especially sharp increase in detention of noncriminal Latinos; 

    • ICE encourages its agents to arrest people with no proven criminal connections when they show  up for routine immigration appointments and in wholesale sweeps and “at large” arrests at farms,  construction sites, factories and other businesses; official ICE policy allows agents to enter  people’s homes, and to arrest and imprison them without a judicial warrant or other semblance of  probable cause or due process; the administration persistently ignores and violates federal court orders meant to remedy these and other legal and constitutional violations; 

    • The federal deportation effort is being executed by masked and heavily armed ICE agents,  facilitated by 35,000 Army, Navy, Marine, and National Guard troops sent by the President in an  unprecedented domestic military deployment; these forces are descending on peaceful U.S. cities  against the wishes of state and local officials using dangerous and deadly weapons, not only  against local immigrants, but also against peaceful citizen protesters and observers; 

    • This month, ICE sent 2000 federal agents to Minneapolis to conduct massive sweeps that the  Governor described as “a war that’s being waged against Minnesota”; ICE agents were captured  on videotape repeatedly shooting and killing local protest observers Renee Good and Alex Pretti without provocation; in each instance, administration officials rushed to falsely characterize the  victims as criminal and the killings as justified; these are just two of the 38 people who have died in ICE custody since the President’s inauguration, including 6 in the past four weeks; 

    • The President has ordered “maximum” detention to coerce immigrant detainees to “consent” to  deportation orders; the resulting official “no release” and no bail policy means that immigrants  who choose to challenge the legality of their detention must endure indefinite incarceration in  harsh, remote detention centers as they await the assignment of a trial date; 

    • The President has gutted the immigration court system ensuring that the current wait for an  immigration court date (currently up to five years) will stretch even longer; despite an immigration court backlog of over 3 million cases and the skyrocketing ICE detention rates, the President has  fired 98 immigration judges (nearly 15% of the federal immigration bench), has eliminated roughly half of the Board of Immigration Appeals, has removed Department of Justice officials responsible  for overseeing immigration courts, and has eliminating federal funding for immigrant legal services;  

    • Last summer, Congress increased funding for immigration enforcement by $107 billion dollars,  including $45 billion for new detention facilities which have already doubled in number; ICE has undertaken an “unprecedented nationwide recruitment campaign” that in just four months has  expanded the ICE workforce by 120%; the administration claims already to have deported or driven out as many as 3 million immigrants and, tragically, the President assures us he is just  getting started. 

WHEREAS, Marin County’s peaceful and cherished immigrant communities—and similar  communities throughout the country—are being unjustly terrorized and torn apart by the federal  government’s increasingly aggressive and violent mass deportation efforts; and

    • Marin’s immigrant communities are indispensable contributors to the social, civic, economic, and  cultural fabric of our County; yet these immigrants now live in the justifiable fear that masked and  heavily armed ICE agents might arrive at any moment to snatch them or a loved one away from  the relationships, homes, jobs, and lives they have built in our community; 

    • Going to work, to school, to church, to the store, or even to a scheduled immigration appointment  poses immeasurable risks for Marin’s immigrants of color; once joyous cultural celebrations and  gatherings with fellow immigrants have become collective acts of profound courage;  

    • Immigrant parents in Marin feel compelled to develop and rehearse emergency plans with and for  their children in the event of ICE encounters, detentions, and forced separations; they pray that  their children will never have to suffer the terror of imprisonment in an ICE detention facility.  

    • The number of children held in ICE detention has risen more than sixfold under this  administration with as many as 400 children in ICE detention on a given day; ICE detainees  include children as young as two months old; a court order forbids detaining children longer than  20 days, but at least 1000 immigrant children have suffered longer periods of imprisonment under  this administration; 

WHEREAS, the Marin County Board of Supervisors is committed to preventing the use of Marin  County resources—including, particularly, those of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO)—to inform,  assist, or facilitate the federal government’s unlawful and unconscionable mass deportation efforts; and

    • The Board of Supervisors has officially acknowledged the threat to democracy posed by the anti immigrant agenda and other policies of the current federal administration and reaffirmed its  “unwavering support for the rights freedoms, and interests of all members of our diverse  communities, regardless of identity, background, or immigration status”; 

    • Marin County voters have consistently and overwhelmingly opposed the current federal  administration and its anti-immigrant agenda; the President received less than 17% of the vote in  Marin County in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections as well as in the 2025 special  election on Proposition 50; 

    • The Board of Supervisors strongly opposes local law enforcement entanglement with federal  immigration authorities and reaffirms the findings in section 7284.2 of the California Values Act that such entanglement (a) endangers public safety by undermining trust between law  enforcement and immigrant communities, (b) diverts limited resources and blurs the lines of  accountability between local, state, and federal governments, and (c) risks subjecting residents of  our community to unreasonable, warrantless detention, inequitable treatment based on race,  ethnicity, and/or immigrant status in violation of their constitutional rights; 

WHEREAS, the MCSO currently provides substantial information and assistance to federal  immigration authorities that is not legally required and that needlessly facilitates the federal government’s  legal, constitutional, and human rights abuses;

    • The MCSO routinely cooperates with ICE requests and administrative warrants when it has  discretion under the Values Act to decline to do so (where specified offenses are alleged, Gov.  Code Sec 7282.5(a)); all 60 instances of ICE cooperation that the MCSO has disclosed at its annual Truth Act forums over the past three years consisted of these voluntary acts of  cooperation; 

    • The MCSO sidesteps the Values Act prohibition against responding to ICE requests for  notification and personal inmate information (Gov. Code Sec. 7284.6(a)(1)(C) and (D)) by  needlessly publishing daily booking logs on its website (booking logs can be made available in a  searchable format as they are in San Francisco, without needlessly providing all inmate  information to ICE); ICE data reveals that cooperation between local jails and ICE has been a key  driver in the expansion of ICE arrests under the current administration; 

    • The MCSO circumvents the Values Act restrictions and Truth Act disclosure requirements that  pertain to administrative ICE warrants and detainers by reporting so-called “criminal aliens” who  pass through the County Jail to ICE under a contractual agreement with the federal government  called SCAAP (State Criminal Alien Assistance Program) which pays the Sheriff a bounty of  approximately $1000 for every immigrant reported; the Sheriff has admitted reporting more than  1000 of our immigrant neighbors to ICE under SCAAP in the past three years and receiving more  than $1.2 million from the federal government in compensation; the Sheriff has never included his  immigrant reporting under SCAAP (reflected in DOJ records from 2022, 2023, and 2024) in his  annual Truth Act disclosures;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, in order to protect our immigrant communities, uphold  the Constitution and laws of the State of California and of the United States, and defend Marin County  community values, the Marin County Board of Supervisors commits to use all of the powers, resources,  and influence at its disposal—including budgetary and oversight authority—to ensure that no County  information, resources, staff, or representatives are made available to assist federal immigration  authorities, either directly or indirectly, except to the extent expressly mandated by law or by a judicial  warrant; 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board appreciates and supports the authority and  professionalism of the Sheriff and the MCSO in the exercise of their official duties, which include criminal  law enforcement and investigations, search and rescue, coroner services, jail operations, and court  security, and do not properly encompass participation in or facilitation of federal immigration law  enforcement;  

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board, by this Resolution disapproves and directs the  Sheriff and the MCSO to cease and desist from any and all voluntary assistance to federal immigration  authorities including: 

  • Complying with requests or administrative warrants from federal immigration authorities in the  absence of a judicial warrant; 

  • Making County jail booking logs available in their entirety on the MCSO website or other publicly  accessible medium (booking logs can be made available in a searchable format as they are in  San Francisco, without needlessly providing all inmate information to ICE); 

  • Collecting, categorizing and/or reporting immigrant information to federal authorities under the  State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) or by any other mechanism that is not  mandated by law or a judicial warrant. 

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Marin held  this ____ day of _____________, 2026.