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Stefan Mercer
From:Raven Ravenwood <ravenf32@gmail.com>
Sent:Sunday, May 31, 2026 6:44 AM
To:Public Comments
Subject:EXTERNAL - Support Resolution Against ICE Facility in Gilroy
Good evening, my name is Tara. I represent Cap25. I strongly support the proposed resolution to oppose
the possible ICE detention facility in Gilroy. I also urge you to agendize a “No staging” policy for June 15
to provide concrete protections for the community by prohibiting the use of city property for civil
immigration enforcement.
Gilroy should oppose this possible detention facility because we must combat this anti-immigrant
agenda that destabilizes our communities and tears families apart. In this dire crisis, we greatly
appreciate your brave local leadership in taking a public stand, together with all our communities, to
oppose any detention facility in our City.
This country does not need anymore for profit prisons! Please make a stand and support the proposed
resolution to oppose the possible ICE detention facility in Gilroy.
Part of why the Bay has not seen the same level of ICE terror as Los Angeles, Central Valley or
Minneapolis is because we don’t have a detention center nearby for ICE to cage our loved ones in.
Thanks to community organizing, there are currently no immigration detention centers north of
Bakersfield in California. Let’s keep it that way because if ICE succeeds, FCI Dublin could become the
first detention center in the Bay Area, with a Gilroy detention facility to support these harmful operations.
If ICE builds it, ICE will fill it, and the Bay will see increased enforcement activity and higher rates of
family separations.
FCI Dublin, a former shuttered federal prison, is at risk of being reopened as an ICE detention center and
has about 1000 beds. After Gilroy, ICE can transfer our loved ones to the potential detention center in
Dublin, CA - for longer than 72 hours, for days, weeks, months, and even years. What’s happening in
Dublin is very connected to the threat in Gilroy because opening a detention facility and a detention
center would drastically increase ICE’s ability to detain more people in our Bay Area home.
Good evening, my name is Tara. I represent Cap25. I strongly support the proposed resolution to oppose
the possible ICE detention facility in Gilroy. I also urge you to agendize a “No staging” policy for June 15
to provide concrete protections for the community by prohibiting the use of city property for civil
immigration enforcement.
Gilroy should oppose this possible detention facility because we must combat this anti-immigrant
agenda that destabilizes our communities and tears families apart. In this dire crisis, we greatly
appreciate your brave local leadership in taking a public stand, together with all our communities, to
oppose any detention facility in our City.
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This country does not need anymore for profit prisons! Please make a stand and support the proposed
resolution to oppose the possible ICE detention facility in Gilroy.
Part of why the Bay has not seen the same level of ICE terror as Los Angeles, Central Valley or
Minneapolis is because we don’t have a detention center nearby for ICE to cage our loved ones in.
Thanks to community organizing, there are currently no immigration detention centers north of
Bakersfield in California. Let’s keep it that way because if ICE succeeds, FCI Dublin could become the
first detention center in the Bay Area, with a Gilroy detention facility to support these harmful operations.
If ICE builds it, ICE will fill it, and the Bay will see increased enforcement activity and higher rates of
family separations.
FCI Dublin, a former shuttered federal prison, is at risk of being reopened as an ICE detention center and
has about 1000 beds. After Gilroy, ICE can transfer our loved ones to the potential detention center in
Dublin, CA - for longer than 72 hours, for days, weeks, months, and even years. What’s happening in
Dublin is very connected to the threat in Gilroy because opening a detention facility and a detention
center would drastically increase ICE’s ability to detain more people in our Bay Area home.
Thank you
Tara