SAN RAFAEL, California (02-10) – The horrific killings of Renee Good on January 7, and Alex Pretti January 24 in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, accompanied by the terrible act of armed masked military outfitted operatives detaining five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian, have only fortified the call by Marin County residents to again demand that the Marin County Sheriff, Jamie Scardina, sever his department’s ties through their voluntary participation in the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).
During their regularly scheduled meeting on February 10, the Marin County Board of Supervisors heard from human rights activists and county residents demanding the board take immediate action in ending the sheriff’s relationship with ICE by calling for “No ICE in Marin” and “Let’s Melt the ICE.” The supervisors were also presented with a petition containing more than 5,900 signatures demanding that the sheriff end his cooperation with ICE.
In calling for “ICE Out of Marin” activists paralleled the universality of their cause with that of Benjamin Franklin who in 1777 while in Paris noted the newly established US Constitution’s importance was “…the cause of all mankind…we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.”…