Potential ICE use of former FCI Dublin prison

A nearly 50-year resident urged the council to reconsider its earlier refusal to act on FCI Dublin, noting Dublin and Alameda County both passed resolutions against ICE presence.

A 70-year-old grandmother who protests weekly with her 91-year-old mother asked whether it would still be safe to protest if ICE comes to the Tri-Valley, and asked the council to speak out.

Returned to restate his concern and asked the council to issue a statement of concern or opposition to an ICE presence in the community.

A descendant of immigrant grandparents warned that ICE presence raises arrests in surrounding communities and urged the council to go on record opposing a detention center, like Dublin and Alameda County did.

Argued an ICE detention center would disrupt the local economy and community, citing conditions in detention and impacts seen in other cities.

A recent Amador Valley graduate said reopening the facility known as the 'rape club' would be complicity in violence and urged the council to say no to FCI Dublin.

Read a first-person account from a Minneapolis mother describing life under ICE operations, arguing the same would happen here if a facility opens in Dublin.

Sympathetic to the concerns but said no ICE plans for the area have been announced, calling the fear premature and asking residents to give city leaders time.