Support Alameda County ICE FREE ZONES!

Please join us in advocating that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors pass two crucial resolutions proposed by Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas and supported by Supervisor Eliza Márquez. These resolutions would:

1. Create a County Response Plan for Immigration Enforcement to provide protocols for rapid communication and response among County agencies in case of escalated federal enforcement.
2. Enact an “ICE Free Zones” policy prohibiting the use of county-owned or county-controlled properties for civil immigration enforcement activity.

You can view the presentation with summaries of the resolutions here and read about the committee hearing in The Oaklandside.

Get Involved:
1. Give public comment in person at the Board of Supervisors meeting on January 27 at 9:30am (1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor, Oakland).
2. If you cannot attend the meeting in person, we encourage you to submit written public comment or
3. Contact your Alameda County Supervisor directly to ask for their support. Find your supervisor and their contact information here.

Sample message:
My name is _. I live in your district/am a member of an organization in your district/work in your district). I urge you to support two critical resolutions from the Alameda Country Together For All Ad Hoc Committee that will come before you on January 27: 1) the County Immigration Enforcement Response Plan; and 2) the “ICE FREE ZONES” policy restricting the use of county-owned and county-controlled parties for immigration enforcement activity. I also urge the Board to adopt a resolution opposing the re-opening of FCI Dublin as an immigration detention center. These proposals are urgently needed in light of the escalating crisis of ICE violence against our communities. Thank you for your support.

STOP INCREASED FUNDING FOR ICE!

Please use the links below to send pre-written letters to your members of Congress.
– Tell Congress: Stop ICE’s Deadly Detention Expansion & Mass Arrests
– Tell Congress: No Funding for More ICE Detention Beds
– Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding!
– No Funds for ICE!

Please use the script below to contact your members of Congress and urge them to take immediate action on funding for ICE and Border Patrol. You can find your representatives here.

Dear Members of Congress, 

Masked federal agents are unleashing violence and chaos in our cities and neighborhoods. Agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a mother, wife and widow of a military veteran, on January 7 in Minneapolis, MN. Just a day later, agents shot two people in Portland, OR. We call on you to say enough is enough. Congress must rein in the violence and lawlessness endangering our communities. Specifically, we ask that you refuse to increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, and that you demand that any appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security restrains and requires accountability from immigration enforcement agencies.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security a windfall of $170 billion dollars to supersize its deportation force and detention network. Congressional funding enabled DHS to become what it is today: a dangerous agency operating with impunity. Masked federal agents, equipped for war, are dragging people from their cars, zip-tying children, firing tear gas at high schoolers, and pointing guns at peaceful observers and protestors. They are setting up checkpoints in our cities and detaining people based on the color of their skin, their language or accent, or where they happen to be. By design, these actions terrorize and wreak havoc. They tear at the seams of our families, our communities, and our safety. They poison our democracy and our way of life. This is not the America we deserve, nor the one our laws or Constitution allow. 

Congress should use its Article I power to limit these out-of-control agencies and require that they serve the public, not terrorize communities with impunity. Accordingly, we call on you to, at a minimum: 

1. Refuse to vote for any FY2026 appropriations bill that includes increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol, including funds for detention. The existing system allowed 32 people to die in custody in 2025, the deadliest year ever, while thousands of others suffer physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, and degrading conditions.

2. Refuse to vote for any appropriations bill for DHS beyond January 30 unless it: 

a. Strengthens restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension;  

b. Ends border patrol deployment to our cities and rejects its ever-expanding mandate in immigration enforcement; and 

c. Limits DHS’s reprogramming and transfer authority, including specifically preventing reprogramming and transferring funds for detention.  

Increase funding and extended hours for the ACILEP hotline! Contact the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in your district and urge them to increase funding to the ACILEP hotline so that it can begin functioning on the weekends ASAP.

Please share the hotline flyer in English and Spanish and print your own hotline cards (English & Spanish) to distribute to your community.