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Zuniga, Diana From: Maria Ceja < Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 12:43 PM To: eComment Subject: Non -Agenda Item: Removal of ICE & National Guard out of Santa Ana Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. Mayor and City Council, I join the many residents and community members calling for the removal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard, and any of there federal agencies assisting in the kidnapping of our community members and militarizing the city we love and call home. These agencies are imposing unnecessary psychological (mental health decline, stress, fear, etc) and even physical harm (shooting rubber bullets, throwing tear gas at people practicing their first amendment right) and financial insecurity (not going to work in fear of facing ICE/BP/DHS) in our community. Anyone from and who lives in Santa Ana has sense the instantaneous shift in our community since these agencies entered our community — empty streets, fear of going to get ones' going to work and/or getting essentials, wanting to leave the state, etc. I join and reaffirm the demands to Mayor Amezcua and the rest of the city council to remove these harmful federal agencies that do nothing but invoke violence from our community. I also want to express my extreme disappointment and frustration with the lack of care and solidarity from Mayor Valerie Amezcua. It is embarrassing to call her our mayor, especially as she uses her family members' migration stories only when it's convenient for her, but stays silent when the community needed her support, and when she did finally speak it was heartless and too late. Mayor Valerie Amezcua needs to be held accountable for her lack of leadership for those most vulnerable in our community. Mayor Amezcua, your lack of action to protect our community is shameful and at the very least to even save any ounce of integrity you may have left, you must resign to hold yourself accountable for not being capable of leading this city with love, grace, strength, and bravery in tumultuous times. Instead you are complicit with the harm those most vulnerable have been facing everyday. All of the city council members must act to not only ensure that these agencies leave our cities but to leave knowing that they are not welcome here. The council must also act to provide support and care to those directly impacted by recent these inhumane raids we have all witnessed throughout our city. Do better. Sincerely, Maria Ceja Santa Ana resident (born and raised)