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Before the Sacramento City Council could approve a new immigration action plan, it halted the meeting due to continued outbursts from anti-ICE activists who were protesting the document, which one resident described as “nothing more than political theater.”
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Council members and staffers left the dais as the disruption grew louder and the city clerk attempted to warn the crowd about chamber decorum, drowned out by expletive-filled shouting.
“Shame on every single f—— one of you!”
“Who do you work for? Who do you protect?”
Moiz Mir, a leader of the community coalition consulting on the immigration plan, said he was disappointed to see that a clause reducing the retention of automated license plate reader data from two years to 30 days was eliminated.
Speaker Anna Marie Smith asked that the city look to Oakland, which has stronger sanctuary city policies and has abandoned a joint task force that shared information with several federal agencies similar to one with which Sacramento is currently involved.
The group of activists has been pressuring the city for months to adopt stronger policies to resist the national immigration crackdown, claiming that the Sacramento Police Department has cooperated with federal immigration agencies and inappropriately arrested protesters at the John E. Moss Federal Building downtown. City officials have denied that police have worked with ICE.
Earlier this year Mayor Kevin McCarty accused the group of “crying wolf” surrounding the condition of a man who was detained by federal immigration agents at the building, increasing tension in an already fraught relationship between the activists and the city.
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Councilmember Mai Vang was in the middle of questioning Deputy Chief Dan Monk about the police department’s activity around the building when the disruption began, ultimately forcing the council into a recess during which everyone but city staff and reporters were forced to vacate the chambers.
After coming back to session, Councilmember Karina Talamantes asked that community groups respect city staff working to update the plan while McCarty advocated against continued staff engagement with the groups, saying that he did not know if it would be “fruitful.”
Vang voiced her support for the plan as a “living document,” but criticized the police department’s enforcement actions surrounding the federal building, saying that “we have far bigger injustices to confront than just policing people who are maybe standing in the wrong place or blocking streets.”
“We do have a fascist government that doesn’t care about due process — I think we’re all in agreement on that, right?” Vang said. “We have an agency that is killing us citizens, separating immigrant refugees and families, and I just want to acknowledge that advocates are out there, and I want to acknowledge that they are protesting ICE. And yes, that does include disruption of an agency.”
The council passed the plan and an ordinance restricting city property from being use for civil immigration enforcement 9-0.
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This story was originally published June 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM.