Pro-immigration activists rallied outside the Marin County Board of Supervisors chambers on Tuesday to demand a legally binding ICE-free ordinance, NBC Bay Area reported. The board did not add the item to its agenda and was not available for an interview, and county officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment, the station said.
Marin already has an internal administrative policy that prohibits county employees from voluntarily using public funds, staff or equipment to assist with federal civil immigration enforcement, bars ICE from using county-owned property for staging, processing or operational bases, and requires employees to report immigration enforcement activity on county property within 24 hours, NBC Bay Area reported. Activists said that policy lacks legal force. “The ordinance would ban ICE from using resources, property, data, or personnel when conducting operations,” said Curt Ries of DSA Marin. Activists said they collected 10,000 signatures and eventually moved the demonstration inside the chambers. “People are living in fear, that if you see around here Latinos are not present, that there’s fear in the streets because of ICE,” said Vanessa Mejia, an activist with the movement.
Speakers pointed to an incident last October in which 18 undocumented immigrants were detained by ICE in Marin County, the station reported. This account is based on NBC Bay Area’s report and does not treat the ordinance as adopted. It is a local follow-up to broader Bay Area fights over jail and hospital access, not a substitute for those earlier stories.