A band of top labor leaders Thursday signed onto a resolution condemning Mayor Sam Liccardo’s push to revise the county’s sanctuary city policy in the wake of the murder of a San Jose woman by an undocumented immigrant.
In the resolution, the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council executive board, Latinos United for a New America, Human Agenda and several organizations associated with the Santa Clara County FIRE Coalition such as SIREN, Silicon Valley De-Bug, Asian Law Alliance, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, People Acting in Community Together, Pangea Legal Services, YWCA Silicon Valley and Sacred Heart Community Service, expressed concern over Liccardo’s views claiming that it “perpetuates a stereotype that immigrants, particularly those of Latino descent, are dangerous criminals.”
