“I am a concerned person calling to request the immediate release of Wilfredo Rivero. Wilfredo went to ICE today to update the agency on his new address. Attempting to comply with ICE’s rules should not lead to someone’s arrest. Thank you.”
You can ask to speak to an enforcement field operations supervisor or the enforcement field officer on duty. 916-339-4300 or 415-365-8800 email: SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov
Today, Wilfredo, a 25 year old resident of Siskiyou County, in rural Northern California, came to Sacramento (a nearly 6 hour drive!) to update his address with the ICE field office. he’s been shackled and caged and his family fears he will be deported in the next day or two.
Last week, the (barely) runner-up in the Sacramento mayor's race alleged a campaign contribution offer she called a "crime," but did not say who the "donors" were. Today, in the Sacramento Bee, the reveal (of those who deny any wrongdoing).
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Sometimes Santa will say no. An exasperated Sacramento City Council the week before Christmas refuses to guarantee another two year's pay to City Manager Howard Chan, setting up his tantrum/departure. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...
From @byrobinepley.bsky.social an exceptional rundown of Katie’s time in office, the struggles, and the victories. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...
Had an amazing day at @sac_dsa ’s #TDOV Trans Day of Visibility event. Followed by @queersportz ’s Queaster, kicking off the summer of Queer Picnics. ❤️
Today’s ballot drop has @flojaune.bsky.social ‘s lead increase to 6,000 over her next competitor. We love to see purple.
It is the same way women feel when men talk about and make decisions about our reproductive health and don't include us. Imagine what it is like to live life in the hardest conditions and people treat you like you're a problem for being poor and sick -- and they introduce costly and ineffective policies like daytime camping bans so they simply don't have to see you. So no, I'm not being "soft on homelessness." I'm being a human with a soul on homelessness. I'm being a data-driven epidemiologist on homelessness. I'm imagining what I would need and want if I was in their shoes. I'm talking to my friends who are experiencing homelessness or on the brink of it right now about how this feels and what they need. I'm setting goals for our city --- a city where 30,000 people do the Run to Feed the Hungry each year -- so that we can all play a role in the solution. And most importantly, I'm inviting you to join me. ryzt900 If anyone hasn't read this response PLEASE DO. I can't vote in the
VerenValtaan Are you concerned that the perception that you are "soft" on homelessness is going to cost you this mayoral race? For example, you've mentioned that you are against sweeping homeless camps. Residents are dealing with picking up used syringes during their kids' soccer games, having their property and personal safety threatened, getting assaulted, etc etc, while the mayor's office, county and state play hot potato with people's #1 issue. How much patience are you expecting from the city of Sacramento on this sense of lack of public safety? flojaune OP thank you for asking this question! I'm combining my responses here because you both asked similar things. I hope that's okay. I am not soft on homelessness. What I am is more concerned with effectiveness than misperceptions. I am grateful for the long form space to dispell several. Our housing crisis is caused by at least 13 different factors. Homelessness is as complex and the causes as multifaceted as the people experie
1) The overwhelming majority of people with mental health and substance use issues are housed. Why am I mentioning that? Because mental health and substance use have a bi-directional arrow with homelessness. They may increase the risk of homelessness, but the experience of homelessness also creates and exacerbates mental health and substance use issues. We need only too look at the pandemic to begin to understand this. As soon as stay-at-home policies were passed -- and we were all scared for our lives and many for our livelihoods -- the sales of alcohol skyrocketed. When we are stressed we turn to substances and our mental health suffers. 2) Sacramento county went from 2500 people experiencing homelessness in 2013 to 3900 in 2019 to 9278 in 2022. And 57% of people experiencing homelessness have at least one chronic health condition. 3) We need plans that work. Not performances and theatrics. We currently sweep people from block-to-block -- when we want to while swearing we don't
I am not saying it is okay for people to sleep on our porches, drop needles in our parks, or expose themselves in front of our schools. I'm saying just because white men are the most likely demographic to shoot up public places, doesn't mean we should pass policies banning all white men from public spaces. In the same way that just because someone experiencing homelessness commits a crime doesn't mean we pass a ban on all people experiencing homelessness. Especially when we know that people experiencing homelessness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. I'm saying that there is a much more cost-effective and solution-driven way to a crisis being driven by poverty than putting people in the county jail for trespassing where they will stay for 24 hours to 10 days and then be released at 2am without so much as a transit pass. My immediate plan is to work with each neighborhood to identify sites and establish safe ground so we have a place where people and the
It isn't either/or. It is both/and. We should do what works for all of us and makes our communities healthy, not what is expedient and harmful in the long run. As a public health professional, I have worked with people experiencing homelessness for years. What I have learned is this: I have yet to meet a person who is truly "service resistant." Even when people say no to an offer of services, it is always more complicated than that if we take time to understand. Just like NIMBYs are often more complicated than just saying no; there are valid fears and concerns behind their position that we can address if we listen. What I learn when I take time to establish trust and show respect is that behind the no is: They're frustrated, exasperated, sick, or distrustful. Frustrated because they've been on a list for years with not reprieve. Exasperated because what we have to offer is insufficient for their needs or hard to access. Too sick to move constantly -- or have processing issues that mak
Our very own amazing mayoral candidate Dr. Flo Cofer succinctly and completely laying out the reasons for the way many view homelessness and the ways efforts have not been evidence based and the ways it can be adequately addressed by following the evidence and leading with empathy.
Please join us in voting and in bringing out all your friends to vote, even if these are the only races on the ballot for you.
Please share to your friends & anyone in the city boundaries. On your stories & reach out if you feel comfortable. We need progressives in office & we have a chance to elect an amazing mayor. And along with Katie & Roger, we have a chance to change the face of this city.
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…landscape in the next four years, and that landscape desperately needs transformation.
…deserves voters’ support in the March primary.
The Bee Editorial Board endorses Cofer to be the next mayor of Sacramento.
In a field of aspirants loudly calling for change, Cofer is the most likely to bring that change. She has the most potential to dramatically transform the Sacramento political…
As we spent time with these four individuals and considered our endorsement, one among them emerged from outside the usual suspects of Sacramento politics as the choice to succeed Mayor Darrell Steinberg. This change agent offers an inspired vision for Sacramento and…
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…ensure all income levels can live in this city. He also doesn’t support rent control and other tenant protections.
Seems like a harmful guy.
…especially the corporate kind, want to extract the most rent possible from workers.
Airbnb owners remove vital properties from the market that residents need so that short term renters can be served and they can make more money.
Oh and Phil doesn’t support inclusive housing ordinances to ensure…
A community member shared some videos of Phil’s supporters. It seems landlords, parking lots, vacant properties, empty buildings, and airbnb property owners…support Phil. That seems to not be in alignment with our community.
Property owners and landlords,… www.instagram.com/p/C2y8dx4uza...
Related… “Of her $174,440-plus war chest, some $141,861 of it poured in directly from voters. Many were doctors, nurses, mental health professionals and religious leaders, but the professions also veered into the arts…” The epitome of grassroots. sacramento.newsreview.com/2024/01/12/w...
Exactly the type of leadership Sacramento deserves. The type it needs. The type that prioritizes citizens and not corporate interests. That treats every, last, one of us as a priority to ensure consensus building.
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… This is unconstitutional and purely virtue signaling to their housed constituents. All while accomplishing nothing. Costing more money. And putting the city at risk for more lawsuits.
#DivestToInvest
#CareNotCops
In case you were under the mistaken impression that they cared about addressing the issue. This would do nothing to get folks housing and has everything to do with further harming our unhoused who are also “residents” (who Jennings and Guerra cynically reference as a rationale for the measure)…
Caring and empathy being the fundamental building blocks that allowed us to thrive as a species. The system we exist in punishes those who do it and show just how much it despises those who differ from the proper paths of existence. Of greed. Of profit centered thinking.
…people when it’s obviously only focused on profits, on greed.
…that come from a society taught to hate the poor…a society that rather than help their community members when they fall…doubles down on their trauma, on their othering, on their pain…and traumatized them all over again by not caring.
…traumas.
Traumas that come from abuse.
…that come from tragedies like death, illness, job loss, and more.
…that come from coping with a system that stigmatizes mental health. And profits by not treating it.
…that come from recognizing the inherent disconnects in a system claiming to be focused on…
If you can jail us you can house us.
“If you can jail us you can house us.”
Simple statement. And true. Housing is far cheaper than the costs associated with jailing.
Housing is more moral because it doesn’t compound traumas experienced by unhoused folks. Traumas that are often not their fault.
Traumas that come from generational…
Recent News: The County of Sacramento BOS wants to sign residents up for a $1 billion jail expansion. At a cost of $10 million per bed.
The City of Sacramento’s Law and Leg members Guerra and Kaplan, who each have accepted over $20k from landlords…don’t want to stop Tenant Harassment.
Cool. 😒
