When ICE Comes to Town: Letter by Chief Stephens, Police Practices Board, and City Council Discuss EPD’s Role With Federal Agents
Eureka officers watch crowd protesting at the Humboldt County courthouse on July 4, 2025. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Concerns raised about how local law enforcement will deal with federal officers operating here came up at Eureka’s Board of Community Oversight of Police Practices on Jan 27. Those concerns continue to echo through the public conversation.
Those who have asked what the Eureka Police Department will do when federal immigration law enforcers come to town have gotten answers but some questions haven’t been directly addressed.
A Jan. 30 “letter to the community” written by Eureka Police Chief Brian Stephens diplomatically discusses the interface between local and federal law enforcers, with an accompanying FAQ document giving additional detail.
Local concern surged following federal lethal force actions in Minneapolis and last month’s meeting of Eureka’s Board of Community Oversight of Police Practices became a de facto forum
on the issues involved.
More than a dozen speakers said they’re very worried about aggressive response to protests and observation attempts by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies.
Stephens’ letter mostly states the obvious – that city police do not “collaborate or share immigration-related information with federal immigration authorities unless required by state or federal law” nor do they “assist federal agencies with immigration enforcement activities” as per state law and Eureka’s Sanctuary City resolution.
The FAQ document answers concerns expressed at the oversight board meeting somewhat more directly.
On the question of whether EPD can “stop ICE from operating in Eureka,” the answer is “no.”
EPD does not have “legal authority to stop or block lawful federal activity” and does not “take sides in federal enforcement actions,” according to the FAQ.
At the oversight board meeting, Boardmember Lawrence Givener said the feds are “violently profiling, targeting and assaulting men, women, and children without reasonable suspicion” and city police should report egregious federal actions as “critical incidents” to the board and county and state law enforcement agencies.
The FAQ includes the question, “What happens if a federal agent breaks the law within the city?”
The answer: “No one is above the law. If any individual, including a federal agent, commits a criminal act under California law outside the scope of lawful authority, EPD would respond as it would in any other criminal investigation, consistent with state law and officer safety.”
The FAQ and Stephens’ letter don’t directly respond to what many of those who are concerned have asked – whether EPD will intervene or arrest federal agents if they “assault” those who are observing and recording their actions.
Stephens’ letter talks about protest activities without referencing observers or federal actions, saying city police will “ensure that all individuals have equal and safe opportunities to peacefully exercise their rights” but do not support “violence, vandalism, rioting, or any criminal or reckless behavior that places community members or officers at risk.”
The letter was read aloud at the Feb. 3 Eureka City Council meeting by City Manager Miles Slattery, who said Stephens began working on it as soon as the Minneapolis killings happened.
He praised Stephens for “staying on top of this,” adding that the chief had an immediate “understanding of what our community reaction would be.”
Councilmembers also appreciate the letter.
“I think it was important to get up, reach out to the community about what EPD is about and what we stand for, and it was super well-written,” said Councilmember Scott Bauer, adding he hopes letter “makes the community feel comfortable about our law enforcement.”
Saying she hears “a lot of great feedback and appreciation for all that you guys do on a regular basis to keep people safe,” Mayor Kim Bergel appreciates that the chief “got right out in front of this” and “that you’re willing to talk to people about this.”
Earlier in the meeting, during the council reports segment, Bergel delivered a resolute statement on the Minneapolis deaths.
Saying she’d been at Eureka’s “ICE-Out” protests the previous weekend, Bergel described Alex Pretti’s death as a murder.
“When he saw a woman pushed to the ground, he did what any good person would do. He stepped up to help. For that, he was held down and shot,” she said.
“This is not about politics, this isn’t about left or right – this is about right and wrong,” she continued. “No one should die for trying to help someone else. No one should be murdered in the street while people plead for it to stop and no government should try to explain away a killing instead of owning it and answering for it.”
Quoting “one of my heroes,” Martin Luther King, Jr., Bergel concluded by saying “darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that” and asked the community to “be the light right now, let us take care of one another and let us refuse to accept that this is our America.”
Earlier: Letter from Chief Stephens to the Community
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The answer: “No one is above the law. If any individual, including a federal agent, commits a criminal act under California law outside the scope of lawful authority, EPD would respond as it would in any other criminal investigation, consistent with state law and officer safety.”
That means they will investigate it and nothing will come of it. What they need to do is if they see a criminal act committed by a Federal agent they need to arrest that agent just as they would an ordinary citizen.
Police officers swear an oath to uphold the law and the Constitution. I expect them to honor that oath.
It seems these Federal thugs are breaking that oath daily.
federal officers have immunity from state prosecution. If local authorities cooperated with them and left wing protesters didnt impede them, we could get rid of bad apples much more expeditiously.More than a few Illegal immigrants here are involved with the drug trade, have committed murder and other serious crimes and those persons need to be removed. The law abiding ones are a different matter but that problem they created themselves and Congress and the last administration has failed to adequately address. Now the expense and concomitant fraud involved with caring for them is an excessive burden on every citizen.
“The law is clear that there is no absolute immunity for federal officers from state law, despite suggestions to the contrary by Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/when-states-can-prosecute-federal-agents
I totally agree with you.
Sick of hearing constant whimpering from the children’s side. We wouldn’t be in this predicament and we should be in this predicament, but we are. All they have to do is let them get the bad guys out but if everybody keeps on talking about it and Eureka that’s going to draw attention at Sam we got some bad guys here stay away. I have a relative on the Eureka Police Department and I can tell you that if they’re doing their job ice and they’re doing it in a respectful way the police just need to do crowd Patrol and keep them out of the middle of the street. You don’t get in law enforcement space and expect a good outcome. Remember ice is the law too they’re following orders just like the police department’s going to follow their orders from their Commander.
The president of the United States has committed serious crimes and needs to be removed.
Thank you for stating that,” no one is above the law” and yet it is a sanctuary city! Shielding law breakers! How does that work pick and choose which laws you believe in? So as you state on one is above the law so get out of the way of law enforcement doing their job getting illegals out!
Agree
The person laying down the “law” has been convicted and is guilty of ALL THIS:
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/Trump-Verdict-Sheet.pdf
I think we all should be praying for sanctuary from tyranny 🙏🏻 He literally needed to become president to get immunity from prosecution. He will go to prison when his term is over (if No one is Above the Law.)
“Donald Trump is guilty of repeatedly and fraudulently falsifying business records in a scheme to conceal damaging information from American voters during the 2016 presidential election.” – Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg
Listen carefully, because this is not a matter of mere policy preference or political posturing—this is about the fundamental responsibility of adults in a civilized society to protect the vulnerable, to uphold order, and to confront chaos before it devours everything worthwhile.
You, the people of Eureka—the responsible citizens, the parents, the grandparents, the working men and women who built lives here—you have every right, indeed every moral obligation, to demand that your local police department, the Eureka PD, align itself with the federal authorities who are tasked with enforcing the law at the national level. The federal government, through ICE, is not some distant oppressor; it represents the collective will of a sovereign nation to secure its borders and safeguard its citizens. And right now, that means going after the criminal element among those who have entered illegally—particularly the rapists, the child molesters, the murderers, the domestic abusers, and the drug traffickers who are poisoning your children with fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine.
Why in God’s name would any police chief or city council prioritize shielding these predators over the safety of your families? Why would you tolerate a policy that limits cooperation with ICE—except when strictly forced by law—when the result is drug-addled zombies staggering aggressively through your streets, preying on the innocent? This is not compassion; this is moral cowardice masquerading as virtue. It’s the refusal to draw a line between order and chaos, between the rule of law and the descent into barbarism.
Common sense—real, bloody common sense—demands that EPD work with ICE, not against it. When a fugitive illegal alien who has raped, molested children, beaten his wife, or peddled death to kids shows up in your jurisdiction, your local officers should not be hamstrung by sanctuary resolutions or state laws designed to obstruct federal enforcement. They should apprehend, detain, and hand them over. Anything less is a betrayal of the social contract: the implicit promise that society exists to protect the weak from the strong, the lawful from the lawless.
You want safe streets? Then stop pretending that ignoring immigration status for violent criminals is “community trust.” Trust is earned by protecting the community, not by allowing predators to hide behind bureaucratic niceties. The interests of your children—their right to walk to school without fear of fentanyl-laced poison, their right to grow up in a world where monsters are removed—must come before ideological posturing.
Stand up. Speak clearly. Tell your EPD and your city council: No more games. Cooperate fully with ICE to remove the criminal illegal aliens who threaten everything you hold dear. Because if you don’t—if you continue down this path of willful blindness—you are not being tolerant; you are sacrificing the innocent on the altar of misguided compassion. And that, my friends, is the road to hell itself. Clean your house. Protect your people. Do what is right, even when it’s hard.
You’re arguing as if local police are choosing between protecting criminals and protecting families. That’s a false choice.
Rape, child abuse, domestic violence, murder, and drug trafficking are already crimes under California law. When someone commits them—citizen or not—local police can arrest them, prosecutors can charge them, and courts can imprison them. None of that is blocked by sanctuary policies. Violent criminals are not being “shielded.”
Well said. The fact that the federal government is protecting/largely comprised of people who have committed rape, child abuse, or domestic violence leads me to believe that EPD is protecting its community by prioritizing real problems.
Being undocumented in the United States of America is NOT A CRIME. I have White American friends who have chosen not to get SSNs/birth certificates for their children (who were born locally) because their kids are THEIR business, not the government’s. It isn’t a crime to be an undocumented person here. Unlawful presence is a civil violation in the United States and IS NOT A CRIME.
Meanwhile, a twice-impeached convicted felon sits in the Oval Office. “A Nation Of Laws” 💔
Without birth certs and SS#, those kids will not be able to go to school. As they grow and need to work, they won’t be able to without SS#. Parents these days are just hella dumb and their ego and ideals will eventually make their kid’s lives more difficult. Unbelievable the abuse of children that is allowed by anti-vaxxers and now anti-papers. Ya’ll are just weird.
This is classic moral relativism masquerading as compassion—being undocumented is a civil violation, not a felony, but that’s a red herring. The real issue isn’t paperwork; it’s the fugitives crossing illegally after committing rape, child molestation, domestic violence, or running cartel fentanyl operations in their home countries. They’re using sanctuary policies as cover to hide in Humboldt County, where EPD and the Sheriff lack the federal databases, manpower, and deportation power to remove them. Comparing that to American parents skipping SSNs for their kids is a blatant false equivalence—those children aren’t international sex offenders or drug traffickers killing Americans by the thousands.
While you fixate on political jabs about the Oval Office, actual rapists, child abusers, and cartel enforcers walk free here because sanctuary rules block full ICE and FBI cooperation. Rural departments can’t fight this alone; they need federal intel and task forces to hunt these threats. Until those barriers fall, the fentanyl deaths, trafficked girls, and repeat predators continue unchecked. This isn’t about hating immigrants—it’s about refusing to sacrifice innocent lives for ideological comfort. Our community deserves real protection, not willful blindness.
Funny thing about that is when someone enters legally into this country they are vetted their prior convictions reviewed , however when they do not follow the law to come here they skip that process , so we have to live with deal with and hope we catch these people before they can victimize people here . By your logic we should be ok with the increased risk to our way of life simply because for whatever reason they insisted on breaking in verses following the law to enter , the country with the least restrictive requirements to entry in the world .
our neighbors to the north canada for instants does not allow even visitors that have a conviction for any crime that is a felony in canada , that means something as little as a dui 30 years ago bars you from even visiting canada . Think about that . In order to get permission to work in canada you must take a test college level for English or french . You must also provide proof that you have your own health insurance so that you will not be using funds for their citizens health care. This is the country every one claims they will move to when the laws change here yet the truth is that canada will not just open their door and let most people in , there is a process and they enforce it with swats teams if you over stay your visa .
I am not saying we should not have compassion for people or even saying that every illegal immigrant is a criminal or a threat to anyone here , what i am stating is that we have laws and rules for a reason , you do not get to pick and choose which ones will be enforced and which ones will not be . Our legal system is built on a few things one of which is along the lines of equal enforcement of the law , without equal enforcement of the law there is no law , by deciding which laws will be enforced and which ones we should ignore we are stating that there are no laws . If the system is so broken that voting doesnt enact the change people want then it is time to throw it out or move , however such radical thinking is somehow taboo because it is not comfortable to think that life as we know it should be changed we should not have a legal system that is so far out of touch with so many people that is so complex that not even people who practice it can be certain that their actions or motions or judgements will not be overturned at a latter date . If people can not see that this entire situation within the law is intensionally set up this way so that we fight each other instead of those who from both sides desire to rule over us , then i am afraid it will never get any better each day we fall deeper and deeper into division yesterday will always be better than today and vastly better than tomorrow .
The question isn’t whether laws matter — it’s whether enforcing this law this way actually produces safer outcomes, or creates unintended harm.
I don’t hear many people arguing that violent offenders should be ignored or excused. What I hear instead is disagreement over which systems are most likely to reduce harm. Is public safety and the economy better if we arrest otherwise law abiding parents and their children at the school bus stop or by local police focusing on crimes themselves?
Those are important questions. But if the goal is safer communities, it seems worth asking which approaches have actually delivered that outcome.
This comment cuts straight to the heart of the matter with brutal clarity: when someone enters the United States legally, they submit to rigorous vetting—background checks, criminal history reviews, interviews, and scrutiny that weeds out those with serious convictions. But when they bypass the law entirely—crossing illegally—they skip every safeguard, dumping the risk squarely on American communities. We’re left hoping, praying even, that local cops catch these unvetted individuals before they rape, molest, traffic kids, or flood our streets with fentanyl that’s already killing record numbers of our young. By insisting we accept this elevated danger simply because “they wanted a better life” or “it’s not a crime to be here,” you’re endorsing a system that punishes law-abiding citizens while rewarding lawbreakers. Canada, the very country liberals threaten to flee to when things get tough here, enforces its borders with iron discipline: a decades-old DUI can bar entry, visitors must prove they won’t burden the system, and overstays trigger swift enforcement—sometimes with tactical teams. Yet we’re told demanding similar accountability makes us heartless. That’s not compassion; that’s surrender.
The deeper sickness is the selective enforcement rotting the rule of law from within. Our legal system was built on the bedrock principle of equal application—no one gets to cherry-pick which statutes matter and which get ignored. When sanctuary policies, open-border edicts, and prosecutorial discretion create two classes of justice—one for citizens who follow the rules and another for those who smash through them—we don’t have law anymore; we have anarchy dressed as tolerance. This isn’t accidental; it’s engineered division, pitting neighbor against neighbor so the real power brokers—on both sides of the aisle—can consolidate control while we bicker over crumbs. If the system is so corrupt, so unresponsive to the will of the people expressed through votes, then yes, radical reform or even replacement becomes not just thinkable but necessary. Clinging to the illusion of stability while communities bleed out from drugs, trafficking, and unchecked predation is the true taboo. We either enforce the law equally and restore order, or we admit the experiment is failing—and the longer we delay that reckoning, the deeper the division, the weaker the nation, and the darker tomorrow becomes. Wake up before the cost becomes irreversible.
Kym, let’s pause here and dissect this with the intellectual rigor it deserves, because what you’re presenting is a well-intentioned but dangerously incomplete view of reality—one that overlooks the psychological and structural chaos unleashed by sanctuary policies in places like Humboldt County. You’re right that rape, child abuse, domestic violence, murder, and drug trafficking are crimes under California law, and local police can arrest perpetrators regardless of citizenship. But that’s a surface-level argument, a false comfort that ignores the deeper pathology: these policies don’t just fail to shield violent criminals—they actively enable a shadow world where illegal alien fugitives, wanted in their home countries for these very atrocities, exploit our borders as an escape hatch into anonymity.
Consider the facts with precision. Under Democrat-led border policies, we’ve seen an unprecedented surge—millions of illegal aliens crossing into the US, many fleeing warrants for murder, rape, assault, and worse in nations like Mexico, Venezuela, and beyond. These aren’t abstract statistics; they’re predators who vanish into sanctuary havens like Eureka, blending into communities where local resources are already stretched to the breaking point. Take Megan’s Law, for instance—that’s California’s robust registry for tracking sexual predators, a tool born from tragedy to protect families by mandating public disclosure and monitoring. It’s a cornerstone of order in a chaotic world. But here’s the intellectual blind spot: in rural outposts like Humboldt County, with its vast terrain and underfunded sheriff’s office, local authorities simply lack the manpower, databases, and cross-jurisdictional reach to hunt down undocumented sexual predators who slither across the border undetected. These monsters aren’t registering under Megan’s Law; they’re ghosts in the system, hiding in plain sight, preying on our young women and children while peddling fentanyl-laced death that ravages families from the inside out.
Humboldt is a microcosm of this national betrayal—sheriff’s deputies and EPD officers are outnumbered, outgunned in terms of intel, and overwhelmed by the fentanyl crisis that’s killing kids faster than we can bury them. They don’t have access to federal databases that flag international fugitives, nor the specialized task forces to dismantle trafficking rings that span borders. Without full cooperation with ICE and the FBI, it’s like fighting a war with one hand tied behind your back. These federal resources aren’t optional luxuries; they’re the essential reinforcements needed to excise the cancer before it metastasizes. Imagine a psychologist treating a patient with deep-seated trauma—you don’t ignore the root causes; you confront them head-on with every tool at your disposal. Here, the root is unchecked illegal entry, and the tools are federal agents who can deport these threats after arrest, preventing recidivism and closing the loophole that lets them evade justice.
This isn’t about choosing between criminals and families, Kym—it’s about recognizing that sanctuary policies create a moral hazard, a psychological incentive for predators to flock here, knowing local cops are handcuffed from full federal synergy. True community trust isn’t built on willful blindness; it’s forged through decisive action that prioritizes the innocent. If we truly want safe streets in Eureka—free from the zombies of addiction, the traffickers stealing our daughters, and the child molesters lurking in the shadows—then EPD and the Humboldt Sheriff must openly welcome ICE and FBI collaboration. Anything less is a dereliction of duty, a surrender to entropy that Jordan Peterson would call a betrayal of our collective responsibility to order over chaos.
SANDTUARY CITY POLICIES are the road to hell paved with misguided compassion. Let’s choose the harder path—the one of truth, accountability, and protection. Our communities, our women and our children deserve no less.
Sanctuary cities don’t just shelter the vulnerable—they deliberately create breeding grounds for criminal illegal aliens who are fleeing warrants for sex offenses, child molestation, rape, and brutal domestic violence in their home countries, turning places like Eureka into safe havens where predators can vanish into the shadows while local law enforcement is deliberately handicapped from full federal cooperation.
These monsters aren’t random migrants; they’re fugitives exploiting open borders and sanctuary policies to hide from justice, and cartel networks thrive on it, using these Democrat strongholds as operational bases to flood our streets with fentanyl, heroin, and meth that are slaughtering our youth at record rates while simultaneously trafficking young women and children into modern-day slavery right under our noses.
The psychological reality is stark: when local policies signal that immigration status trumps public safety, they incentivize the worst offenders to flock here, knowing their crimes won’t trigger the full weight of ICE, FBI databases, or deportation—it’s a moral inversion that prioritizes ideology over innocent lives.
This nightmare of poisoned kids, shattered families, and trafficked daughters will never end locally until every last sanctuary city resolution is scrapped, borders are sealed, and law enforcement is unleashed to work hand-in-hand with federal authorities to hunt down these threats and send them back where they belong—anything less is complicity in the slow destruction of our communities.
Sanctuary policies do not stop police from arresting or prosecuting violent criminals. In California, rape, child abuse, domestic violence, murder, trafficking, and drug crimes are enforced regardless of immigration status. Sanctuary laws limit civil immigration enforcement, not criminal law enforcement.
There is no evidence that sanctuary cities have higher violent crime rates. And the evidence in this study shows that sanctuary counties had less crime: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-effects-of-sanctuary-policies-on-crime-and-the-economy/
Claims that sanctuary cities attract foreign fugitives or prevent tracking sex offenders are also unsupported.
Fentanyl trafficking is driven by organized criminal networks, primarily moving drugs through ports of entry, often using U.S. citizens as couriers. Ending sanctuary policies would not meaningfully disrupt that supply chain.
Finally, decades of research show that when people fear deportation for contacting police, crime reporting drops, making communities less safe—not more.
Public safety policy should be based on data, not fear or hypotheticals.
I’m pretty sure the CIA, FBI played a huge role in allowing drugs to be brought into this country and turned a blind eye when it was beneficial to there arrest they didn’t care about stopping it only the big catch
Humboldt County has a strong tradition of acting independently of federal authority and should continue this trend.
No, Jeffersonian. Federal agents DO NOT have immunity to violate State law. I am a former prosecutor here in Humboldt. I know the law. If necessary, I will place any Agent I see who violates the law, under citizen’s arrest and require EPD to take them into custody.
Thank you Elaine! Myself and many other citizens will be right there with you! Shoulder to Shoulder we will protect ourselves and our neighbors!
IMHO:
Yup. Call in to report illegal aliens. Defend your country !
Billions of dollars spent on them. ($25 to #31 billion Newsom dollars)
Housing ‘Crisis’ due to them. (800K housing will become available).
Americans unemployed due to them. (25% California’s construction illegals).
Drug Cartels. (illicit farms operate outside the regulatory framework)
Do it NOW !
Only the lowest scumbag would inform on their neighbors.
Yeah… meth dealers, fentanyl pushers, child molesters, wife beaters…
Which are you ?
The scumbags are the folx who support the defacto slavery that results from unchecked illegal immigration.
No surprise which folx those are. Same as it ever was.
Why do you want to allow illegal aliens, who are commuting crimes to stay in the USofA? Please explain this? If local law enforcement cooperate with ICE, things go much more safely for everyone. ICE has warrants for these criminal. Are you saying these legal warrants do not apply in Humboldt? Is it you hate Trump so much you protest any action form his administration?
Being a “former prosecutor” doesn’t change Supremacy Clause 101. Federal agents acting within federal authority are not subject to state interference, and a “citizen’s arrest” of a federal officer performing official duties would itself be unlawful obstruction.
Threatening to detain agents because you dislike immigration enforcement isn’t bravery, it’s grandstanding.
The Constitution outranks your personal opinions.
The Supremacy Clause does NOT authorize Federal Agents to violate State law when conducting their Federal duties. They cannot commit felony assault, murder, kidnapping, burglary (breaking and entering to commit a felony without a Judicial warrant can actually be considered burglary)
It’s easy, stay out of their way and none of what you are saying will happen! They are rounding up ILLEGALS not incident folks These folks broke the law by entering without permission, just like any other country on the planet! Many have waited in line for their turn to come in, what gives the illegals any right to butt in-line?
Why do you want to allow illegal aliens, who are commuting crimes to stay in the USofA? Please explain this? If local law enforcement cooperate with ICE, things go much more safely for everyone. ICE has warrants for these criminal. Are you saying these legal warrants do not apply in Humboldt? Is it you hate Trump so much you protest any action form his administration?????
This is law-school word salad. When federal agents act within federal authority, states don’t get to reclassify it as felonies. That’s literally what the Supremacy Clause prevents
Nobody claimed federal agents can commit crimes. The point you’re dodging is that actions taken under lawful federal authority (arrests, searches, detentions) are not “assault,” “kidnapping,” or “burglary” simply because you or a state dislikes them. Federal law defines the authority; state labels don’t magically convert it into felonies
That was tried before in this county by former da ferrogiarro against a federal officer that shot a fleeing pot grower and he lost based upon federal immunity. Do your research. And watch out doing your citizens arrest. You may end up being charged yourself. At the very least you will make fool out of yourself and may end up in jail.
Read the Constitution. Especially the Fourth Amendment. We all are immigrants in this Country starting from the Pilgrims who were illegal when they arrived on Indian land. And they murdered Native Indians, stole their land, raped their women, incarcerated their children and threw them in prison without cause. And I would guess most of your relatives who committed felony crimes were like you. Uneducated righties. The Constitution guarantees process. Even if you are an illegal immigrant. We are not a vigilante Country. We have laws that should be applied to any race of people.
Your ignorance of my knowledge and my past precedes you
You have simplified and ignored some of the facts and change in legal interpretation from the over 50 years ago incident.
I kept it simple because your statement was so ludicrous
Please be sure someone is taking video when you try to place Federal agents under citizen’s arrest.
Yeah, their family will need it for the wrongful death lawsuit.
I highly doubt you are a former local prosecutor lmao 🤣 This comment reeks of hubris and a dangerous misunderstanding of federal supremacy that would make even the most ardent states’ rights advocate blush—claiming a former Humboldt prosecutor could slap federal ICE or FBI agents under citizen’s arrest for “violating state law” is not just legally illiterate, it’s a fantasy of nullification that courts have repeatedly crushed since the Supremacy Clause was ratified. Federal immigration enforcement, including arrests and detentions for civil violations or criminal warrants, operates under the Constitution’s explicit authority to regulate naturalization and foreign affairs; state sanctuary policies cannot criminalize or obstruct that power without inviting preemption and federal intervention. Threatening to arrest federal officers carrying out their sworn duty isn’t standing on principle—it’s sedition dressed as local bravado, a petty power play that ignores the reality: when a state or locality actively impedes the removal of known rapists, child molesters, or cartel fentanyl traffickers who crossed illegally, it’s not defending the community—it’s aiding and abetting threats to public safety. The law isn’t a buffet where prosecutors pick which federal mandates to honor; it’s a hierarchy, and pretending otherwise endangers the very families this person claims to protect.
Remember when an illegal immigrant on a job site was a $10,000.00 fine? I guess that was back in my law-abiding era, back then if you broke the law you were penalized and nobody backed a criminal. Nowadays too much money to be made all around, what a world its become and not for the better.
I want to hear from the Sheriff. EPD doesn’t speak for county law enforcement, unfortunately. What is Honsal’s position? We know for a fact that sheriff’s offices within the Five‑County Coalition have shared information with ICE and have even violated state law by holding individuals and handing them over to ICE. AGAIN THEY BROKE STATE LAW. So, what is the Sherriff’s position and why is he still working with that agency? Specifically should we still be sharing information with Tehama County?
In probable state law violation, Tehama County Sheriff’s Office cooperates with ICE agents who deport a young Tehama County husband to Mexico – anewscafe.com
Because sanctuary laws are null and void.
Why is anyone even protesting?
What happened in another state isn’t necessarily going to happen here. If we just go about our daily lives then things would run smoothley.
In my personal opinion most of these protesters only have half of their info together.
I don’t want to have to worry about raising my children around criminals and pedophiles
There are criminals and pedophiles all around you and they aren’t immigrants. They’re white, they’re men, they’re everywhere. Probably right next door or down the street. Harassing people who just want a safer and better life for THEIR kids is just so American these days. Immigrants have made us stronger, richer and greater, so there’s that. We need a simpler path to citizenship. Stop blaming brown people for everything!
One thing we can do is find out if and when they are arriving at the airport and have a tremendous turnout to protest their presence – at the airport, with full media coverage.
Then have teams who follow them, day and night and report on their actions.
We need an app like organizers had in Minneapolis to stay updated and coordinated.
Someone like Steve Madrone should be on the front lines. If they try to arrest him, there will be big coverage and backlash.
Kym and Co. should be there every second.
Maybe she can deputize temporary reporters.
I think you people need to stay out of the way. Let them do their job and quit interfering with what their job is or is it that you like the drugs people trafficking the violence it comes with the people they are trying to apprehend
I think you people need to stay out of their way. Let them do their job unless you approve of all the drugs, the violence, the people trafficking, and all that comes with illegal aliens and the people that they are aligned with anyone who comes to America and has a loyalty to another country doesn’t belong here. We are not in Mexico, Somalia, or any of those other places we are in America
If they had loyalty to another country they wouldn’t BE here. They come here for better lives for their kids. America is not all white, never has been or will be. We are a nation of immigrants [edit] Much of the crime here is committed by WHITE TWEAKERS.