We hope that you can join us this Tuesday, November 10th, for a two-part action to push the Marin Board of Supervisors to pass an "Urgency ICE-Free Ordinance" to protect our immigrant community. Join Indivisible Marin and the entire No ICE in Marin Coalition for a protest and public comments forum on the morning of the Marin Board of Supervisors meeting. We are offering “shifts,” so EVERYONE will have a chance to speak out and also to provide expanded hours for participation for people on their way to work or school. Let's demonstrate the full impact of our People Power!
ACTION PLAN FOR TUESDAY - SIGN UP FOR ONE OR BOTH SHIFTS HERE!
8:00 AM | "Marin Speaks!" Rally: We'll gather outside the entrance of the Marin County Civic Center building (3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael) along Peter Behr Drive, beside the archway. Please sign up for this pre-meeting rally even if you cannot make the meeting afterward, and bring a sign if you can! Here is a link to talking points to use if desired.
9:00 AM | Board of Supervisors Meeting: We'll head into the chambers located in Suite 330 in the Marin County Civic Center building together to deliver our public comments. We are demanding that the Board return on December 8th with a true, legally-binding Urgency ICE-Free Marin Ordinance that bans ICE from using county property, resources, data, or personnel.
If you can't attend the meeting in person, you can also give public comment online via Zoom and/or write an email to the board before the meeting at BOS@marincounty.gov
BACKGROUND:
After more than a year of advocacy efforts and six months of requests by the NO ICE IN MARIN COALITION to adopt an ICE-Free Marin Ordinance, the Marin Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, October 20th responded with a half-hearted, toothless policy.
We had hoped the Board of Supervisors would act decisively like the State of California and our neighboring communities that have passed ICE-Free laws barring the use of their property, resources, data, and personnel for immigration enforcement. Instead, after a year of inaction, the County ran a misleading PR campaign, passing off a weak internal policy as the equivalent of an ICE-Free law. But the County quietly admits its policy places no restrictions on ICE in public areas like the Civic Center parking lots and lobbies—the very places where ICE routinely operates.
Now the County is trying a new diversion: on November 10, the Board will consider an “Urgency Ordinance” that would place a temporary moratorium on the construction of ICE detention centers. While ICE has not undertaken or proposed to construct such a facility in Marin, we have no objection to the ordinance. Our question is this: Why has the Board of Supervisors failed to act with urgency to end ICE abductions at the Marin Civic Center?
Their tepid response comes at a moment when a 45-day ICE surge in California is ongoing under the Trump administration’s directive to “go after anybody" and ICE activity is increasing here in Marin significantly. It will only get worse under the influence of Stephen Miller, Trump's new Chief of Staff and the architect of the administration's horrifically inhumane ICE-led reign of terror.
We have had more of our neighbors taken by ICE in October than were taken in all of 2025 combined. Additionally, legal observers in Marin have observed ICE using electric shock gloves on detainees, even when detainees have NOT resisted arrest. Allowing this treatment on our county property is not only inhumane, but is an egregious violation of trust that Marin residents have placed in the hands of the elected Board of Supervisors.
As far as the Marin Board of Supervisors is concerned, with the passage of their toothless policy, this matter is closed. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE to the coalition.
Additionally, with each meeting, the Marin Board of Supervisors has incrementally slow-walked and rearranged their agendas to minimize the time provided for the open public comment sections at their meetings. This, too, is unacceptable.
But we won’t give up. As residents of Marin County, taxpayers, and people of principle, we demand that the Marin BOS stand on the right side of history. NO ONE deserves to live in a police state where our neighbors could have their civil liberties denied, be physically assaulted, and be taken at any moment.
Join us on Tuesday! Make a sign, speak out, demand an ICE-Free Marin Ordinance!
We are in a critical moment here in Marin, and are asking all people of principle to join us to demand an ICE-Free Marin. We won’t give up! Spread the word! Ask your friends, family, children, and neighbors to take part - the more we can demonstrate our people power, the more we’ll be heard and our demands taken seriously by the Marin BOS.
Let’s show up in numbers they cannot ignore. Please RSVP here!
