City Council opposition to the continual erosion of immigrant rights and general compassion by the Trump administration, and voice our support for the continuance of Temporary Protected Status for our Salvadoran friends and residents

How it started

Jan 22, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons, Mayor Siddiqui, and Vice Mayor Mallon: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 22, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Mayor Marc McGovern; carried on a voice vote.

strike out the word “general” in the ninth paragraph and insert in place thereof the words “lack of”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 22, 2018, p. 22.

Jan 22, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

January 22, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Council reiterate its opposition to the continual erosion of immigrant rights and general compassion by the Trump administration, and voice its support for the continuance of Temporary Protected Status for our Salvadoran friends and residents; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Council add its firm rebuke of the divisive and ignorant language President Trump recently directed toward Haiti, El Salvador, and the many diverse nations of the African continent, whose sons and daughters contribute to the vibrant diversity of our nation and its citizenry; and be it further ORDERED: That suitably engrossed copies of this policy order be forwarded to the members of our Massachusetts Congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., with appreciation for their continued advocacy for immigrant rights.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 22, 2018