I call on all California police departments and sheriffs offices and all their law enforcement personnel to obey the State of California law prohibiting cooperation with federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they pursue and capture our undocumented residents without warrants. 

I call on all Californians to mobilize in each community to protect all working families regardless of their immigration status. Let us use community creativity to respond in opposition to ICE raids in California, orchestrated by a president and attorney general who are demonstrably hostile to our immigrant brothers and sisters. 

Let’s be alert and ready to respond peacefully to protect our neighbors.  This is not the time to be on the sidelines.

Gayle McLaughlin
Former Mayor of Richmond, CA
Candidate for California Lt. Governor