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Kent Jenkins's avatar

This is our community saying Not In Our Backyard!

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Gary Cedar's avatar

Wow! The feds are in town and have not notified the Sebastopol Police. From my understanding, there are a lot of other federal law-enforcement agencies in town with others under surveillance. I wonder what they’re all here for, but it’s going to be interesting once we all find out why the Sebastopol Police is not even being included in all of these UPCOMING federal raids.

I have lived here 35 years and never seen anything like this before, especially with multiple federal law-enforcement agencies in town.

This is crazy and I hope that it doesn’t turn into a national media event. Best of luck to everyone in dealing with these federal entities .

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Tibby Elgato's avatar

Our tax dollars at work, harassing people on the way to work. What happens here when all the immigrants leave the vineyards, restaurants and businesses they own?

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John Necker's avatar

From my friend in the Toronto, Canada area: Reading in the Sebastopol Times about the North Bay Rapid Response Network -- Great idea.

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Mighty Jones's avatar

"While we do not yet have all of the details about the raid...." Raid? The feds pull one guy over, he shows ID, that's it, he goes on and the Feds leave. That's a Raid?

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Laura Hagar Rush's avatar

I think the mayor was operating on old information when he said that. The first story I heard sounded more like a raid. The reality was less dramatic.

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Barbara Baer's avatar

What are you...everyone, anyone..doing to keep people from being taken by ICE?

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Nancy Hair's avatar

Surprising they didn't just arrest and deport 'someone', then fall back on the 'administrative error' garbage.

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