{"id":26693,"date":"2024-11-26T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=26693"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:38:48","slug":"they-put-him-off-for-fear-of-reprisals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/they-put-him-off-for-fear-of-reprisals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"They put him off for fear of reprisals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this note:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26693-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Viviana-5894917.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Viviana-5894917.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Viviana-5894917.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Redwood City Council voted 4-3 to draft ordinances restricting cooperation with U.S. immigration agencies in the face of Donald Trump&#039;s threats of mass raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The representative&#039;s proposal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/votechrissturken\/?hl=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Sturken<\/a> He originally had a December date for a vote on his proposed ordinances, expressing the need to be ready before Donald Trump returned to the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 50 people, from children to adults, expressed the fear that Trump&#039;s threats have generated in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children and young people expressed that, despite being American citizens, they are afraid of losing their parents, or that their friends&#039; parents will be taken away by immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of all the comments, there were only two against, claiming that the city already has similar ordinances; in that sense, they kept putting it off and from deciding in December it was pushed to January and then to some day in the first quarter of next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the song says, they left it \u201cfor April or May.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rep. Eakin said she didn&#039;t see the need to rush things, preferring to do something slow but helpful, saying it was &quot;sexy&quot; to make quick decisions in support, but she doubted they would help. Mayor Jeff Gee and Rep. Howard expressed fear of losing federal resources if the decision was made not to cooperate with the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26695\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2.jpeg\" alt=\"They were put off for fear of retaliation. During a session, the Redwood City Council voted 4 to 3 to write ordinances restricting cooperation with immigration agencies.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/concejo-de-RWC-2-1068x801.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThey put him off for fear of retaliation.\u201d The Redwood City Council voted 4-3 to write ordinances restricting cooperation with U.S. immigration agencies in the face of Donald Trump\u2019s threats of mass raids. Photo: P360<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is being asked is neither new nor radical: Los Angeles City Council members all voted in favor of their city not cooperating with immigration agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, it was clear that three members of the City Council did not know how to use empathy and put aside their privileged position to put themselves in the shoes of the people who came to ask for support and protection, or they simply lacked the pants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end it was set for some date in the first quarter of next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More from the author:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/pam-bondi\/\">Pam Bondi, nominee for the Department of Justice<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha esta nota: &nbsp; El concilio de Redwood City vot\u00f3 4 a 3 para escribir ordenanzas que restrinjan la cooperaci\u00f3n con las agencias de migraci\u00f3n de Estados Unidos ante las amenazas de Donald Trump de efectuar redadas masivas. La propuesta del representante Chris Sturken originalmente ten\u00eda una fecha en diciembre para que se votara las [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":26696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26744,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions\/26744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}